China detains five over stale meat scandal
China has detained five
people as part of its probe into a firm that allegedly supplied out of
date meat to fast food chains, including McDonald's and KFC.
State-owned Xinhua news agency said the five were held by the Shanghai police, but did not give any further details.
Chinese regulators suspended operations of Shanghai Husi Food
earlier this week after reports in local media claimed it re-processed
expired meat.
Shanghai Husi is the Chinese unit of US-based food supplier OSI Group.
It the latest in a series of food scandals to hit China in recent years.
'Tacit approval'
The allegations against the firm were levelled by a news programme aired by Shanghai-based Dragon TV on Sunday.
On Tuesday, Xinhua reported
that Zhang Hui, manager of Husi's quality department, had revealed
during investigations that "such meat had been produced under tacit
approval of the company's senior managers".