Chinese court fines fast food supplier, jails executives
Xinhua, February 1, 2016 Adjust font size:
A Shanghai court on Monday ordered two food processing plants of a major fast food chain supplier to pay fines and sentenced 10 people to jail terms for producing and selling substandard food products in 2014.
The Shanghai and Hebei branches of Husi Food Co. were each ordered to pay 1.2 million yuan (about 18,000 U.S. dollars) in fines for using recycled meat in production. Husi is a subsidiary of U.S.-based global food processor OSI Group.
Yang Liqun, OSI Group executive in charge of its deep processing division and Australia citizen, was sentenced to three years in jail and fined 100,000 yuan and deported.
The court also handed down jail terms ranging between two years and eight months to 19 months to another nine people, fining them between 80,000 to 30,000 yuan. Four were sentenced to probation.
The scandal was exposed when a TV station reported in July of 2014 that Shanghai Husi had supplied products tainted with reprocessed, expired meat to fast food chains and restaurants across China. Endi