Here is what we have to look forward to. mcdonoughvoice/article/20140805/OPINION/140809751/10088/OPINION/?Start=1 It has been widely reported that workers at a Chinese subsidiary of Aurora, Illinois based OSI Group were videotaped packaging out-of-date chicken and beef products, including meat that was picked up from the factory floor. The products were then sold, in China, to another Illinois based firm – McDonald’s, with headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois. And it was through McDonald’s outlets in China that the contaminated products may have entered the food chain. To date, there have been no health problems associated the contaminated products. OSI Group has deep roots in the Chicago area, going back to 1909, according to its website. Since then, it has grown to be a multi-billion dollar food company with 20,000 employees located around the world – including Germany, Ukraine, China, Australia, Japan and India. The scope of its operations is noteworthy – the Wall Street Journal reported that its poultry plants in China alone process 300 million chickens a year. And it has enjoyed a long relationship with McDonald’s, supplying a reported 85% of McDonald’s outlets with high quality food products. As the China scandal emerged, including graphic video images shown on Chinese television, the two Illinois companies aggressively moved to minimize the fallout from the incident and to rectify the production problems that were shown in the televised stories. It was reported that McDonald’s restaurants in several Chinese cities had stopped selling hamburgers and chicken products. OSI issued several press releases on the situation in which they detailed the considerable number of actions they are taking to both resolve the issue and prevent it from happening again.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 23:40:21 +0000
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