Update | Health officials meet with fastfood chain over supply of 'rotten meat' to Hong Kong
Hong Kong's Centre for Food Safety confirms records of exports by Husi Food Company, whose Shanghai plant is under investigation
The city’s food safety officials have scheduled an urgent meeting with a fastfood restaurant chain on Wednesday evening to follow up on the “rotten meat” scandal involving a Shanghai processing factory.
Secretary for Food and Health Dr Ko Wing-man said this afternoon the meeting’s purpose was to ensure that no affected food has been imported into Hong Kong.
But officials declined to disclose which restaurant chain they will meet and other details of the meeting.
This came after the Centre for Food Safety on Tuesday night confirmed that products from a processing plant in Hebei province run by the company at the centre of the “rotten meat” scandal have been imported into Hong Kong this year
Husi Food Company, owned by the Illinois-based OSI Group, is being investigated by mainland authorities after reports that rotten meat had been reprocessed and repackaged with new expiry dates at its Shanghai plant.
The tainted meat may have been sold to international chains such as McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut.
