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McDonald's halts nuggets sales in Hong Kong


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McDonald's halts nuggets sales in Hong Kong

 Fast food chain McDonald's has suspended sale of chicken nuggets and a few different merchandise in metropolis.

It aforesaid it had foreign chicken and pork from Shanghai Husi Food, the Chinese firm that allegedly equipped out of date meat to aliment corporations.

China has suspended operations of Shanghai Husi when native media reports claimed it re-processed expired  meat.

McDonald's had removed nuggets from its menus at its Japanese shops earlier on over identical issue.

It aforesaid on weekday that regarding two hundredth of its chicken nuggets sold-out in Japan came from Shanghai Husi.

McDonald's aforesaid that almost five hundred stores in Japan had removed chicken nuggets from their menu, adding that sales were expected to resume when it switches to different suppliers in China and Siam.
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 we tend to restate that till nowadays, all the food sold-out at McDonald's restaurants adapt to the food safety customary beneath metropolis legal regulations”

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McDonald's has additionally stopped commercialism its McSpicy chicken filets, chicken and inexperienced salads, recent corn cups and iced lemon tea at its shops in metropolis.

The move came when Hong Kong's food safety regulator suspended all imports from Shanghai Husi Food.

The regulator further that any food merchandise from Husi already foreign into metropolis would be marked, sealed and illegal from sale, unfinished the results of the continuing investigation by Chinese authorities.

Meanwhile, the Reuters press agency quoted McDonald's as voice communication that it had foreign bound merchandise from Shanghai Husi between Gregorian calendar month last year to Gregorian calendar month this year, however no food things from the Shanghai provider remained available.

"We restate that till nowadays, all the food sold-out at McDonald's restaurants conforms to the food safety customary beneath metropolis legal rules," the firm aforesaid.

Shanghai Husi is that the Chinese unit of US-based food provider OSI cluster.

Its different customers in China embrace Yum whole closely-held KFC, occasional chain Starbucks and Burger King.