Meat Scandal

The West Bengal government has roped in two popular faces of the film industry here to ask people to have meat, the sale of which has taken a toll following the carcass meat scandal that surfaced in late April.

The rotten meat case that has put a large number of Kolkata residents off meat has now reached the court. Subhash Dutta, environment activist and lawyer, filed a Public Interest Litigation( PIL) on Thursday, demanding judicial intervention into the matter. Calcutta High Court will hear the case on Monday.

Top restaurants in Kolkata have asserted that there has been no decline in footfall in view of a carcass racket unearthed by the police earlier this week, even as foodies showed scepticism in ordering meat-based dishes.

A Chinese court today jailed six employees of a US company which supplied fast food outlets including KFC and McDonald's with sub-standard meat in a high-profile scandal.

Chinese authorities have charged 10 people over "selling inferior products" in the wake of a food scandal that erupted last year at a unit of US food supplier OSI Group, which saw expired meat sold to global fast food chains.

in a class action lawsuit filed in California, a well-known animal rights group alleges that the grocery chain's attempts to monitor how its suppliers treat their animals are a "sham." And that its customers are paying for it.

Decades old smuggled frozen meat seized in China; creates a nationwide food scandal.

China has vowed to hand out the "harshest penalties" to food safety violators and to further reform the food and drug safety administration, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. Vice-Premier Wang Yang made the comment during an inspection tour of Beijing's...

The fast food company will increase audits and video monitoring at its food suppliers. It will also send more employees to meat production facilities to make sure its food is prepared safely.

An undercover local Chinese TV report on July 20 showed workers at Shanghai Husi Food Co Ltd using expired meat and doctoring food production dates. Regulators immediately closed the factory, which is part of OSI Group LLC, a US food supplier and important McDonald's partner.

McDonald's said on Monday that a recent scandal over expired meat from a Chinese food supplier has had a "significant negative impact" on sales in China, Japan and some other markets.

The owner of the KFC and Pizza Hut restaurant chains says a scandal over food safety in China has hurt sales and might be severe enough to cut into the company's global profit.

When inspectors visited Shanghai Husi Food Co Ltd earlier this summer, the production line at the plant now at the centre of an international food scandal appeared in good order, with fresh meat being handled by properly-attired workers and supervisors keeping a watchful eye over the process.

The parent company of a scandal-hit Chinese food supplier said it is withdrawing all products made by the subsidiary.Shanghai Husi Food Co Ltd, owned by Illinois-based OSI Group LLC, is at the centre of a major food safety scandal, which has spread from...

McDonald's said that its restaurants in Japan had stopped selling products made with chicken from China, in a marked widening of a scandal that saw expired meat sold to fast food giants.

The West Bengal government has roped in two popular faces of the film industry here to ask people to have meat, the sale of which has taken a toll following the carcass meat scandal that surfaced in late April.

The rotten meat case that has put a large number of Kolkata residents off meat has now reached the court. Subhash Dutta, environment activist and lawyer, filed a Public Interest Litigation( PIL) on Thursday, demanding judicial intervention into the matter. Calcutta High Court will hear the case on Monday.

Top restaurants in Kolkata have asserted that there has been no decline in footfall in view of a carcass racket unearthed by the police earlier this week, even as foodies showed scepticism in ordering meat-based dishes.

A Chinese court today jailed six employees of a US company which supplied fast food outlets including KFC and McDonald's with sub-standard meat in a high-profile scandal.

Chinese authorities have charged 10 people over "selling inferior products" in the wake of a food scandal that erupted last year at a unit of US food supplier OSI Group, which saw expired meat sold to global fast food chains.

in a class action lawsuit filed in California, a well-known animal rights group alleges that the grocery chain's attempts to monitor how its suppliers treat their animals are a "sham." And that its customers are paying for it.

Decades old smuggled frozen meat seized in China; creates a nationwide food scandal.

China has vowed to hand out the "harshest penalties" to food safety violators and to further reform the food and drug safety administration, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. Vice-Premier Wang Yang made the comment during an inspection tour of Beijing's...

The fast food company will increase audits and video monitoring at its food suppliers. It will also send more employees to meat production facilities to make sure its food is prepared safely.

An undercover local Chinese TV report on July 20 showed workers at Shanghai Husi Food Co Ltd using expired meat and doctoring food production dates. Regulators immediately closed the factory, which is part of OSI Group LLC, a US food supplier and important McDonald's partner.

McDonald's said on Monday that a recent scandal over expired meat from a Chinese food supplier has had a "significant negative impact" on sales in China, Japan and some other markets.

The owner of the KFC and Pizza Hut restaurant chains says a scandal over food safety in China has hurt sales and might be severe enough to cut into the company's global profit.

When inspectors visited Shanghai Husi Food Co Ltd earlier this summer, the production line at the plant now at the centre of an international food scandal appeared in good order, with fresh meat being handled by properly-attired workers and supervisors keeping a watchful eye over the process.

The parent company of a scandal-hit Chinese food supplier said it is withdrawing all products made by the subsidiary.Shanghai Husi Food Co Ltd, owned by Illinois-based OSI Group LLC, is at the centre of a major food safety scandal, which has spread from...

McDonald's said that its restaurants in Japan had stopped selling products made with chicken from China, in a marked widening of a scandal that saw expired meat sold to fast food giants.