--FILE--un pedone passato passeggiate pubblicità per Starbucks Coffee in Cina a Shanghai, 21 febbraio 2014. Un tossico scandalo alimentare in Cina si sta diffondendo
--FILE--A pedestrian walks past advertisement for Starbucks Coffee in Shanghai, China, 21 February 2014. A toxic food scandal in China is spreading fast, dragging in U.S. coffee chain Starbucks, Burger King Worldwide Inc and others, as well as McDonalds products as far away as Japan. On Tuesday (22 July 2014), Starbucks said some of its cafes previously sold products containing chicken originally sourced from Shanghai Husi, a firm that was shut down on Sunday by local regulators after a TV report showed staff using expired meat and picking up meat from the floor to add to the mix. A Tokyo-based spokesman at McDonalds Holdings Co (Japan) Ltd said the company had sourced about a fifth of its Chicken McNuggets from Shanghai Husi and had halted sales of the product on Monday. Alternative supplies of chicken have been found in Thailand and China, he added. Fast-food chain Burger King and Dicos, Chinas third-ranked fast food chain owned by Ting Hsin International, said they would remove Shanghai Husi food products from their outlets. Pizza chain Papa Johns International Inc said on its Weibo blog that it had taken down all meat products supplied by Shanghai Husi and cut ties with the supplier.
