According to the survey of National Business Daily, some areas even go through the motions in the animal inspection and quarantine procedures that are crucial for broilers to enter the market. What is even more shocking is that in Hebei, Shandong and other places, you can even spend money to buy animal quarantine certificates.
CCTV exposed that some chicken farms in Shandong used illegal drugs to fatten fast-growing chickens, which were directly supplied to KFC and McDonald's restaurants in Shanghai without inspection, once again touching the sensitive nerves of the public in the field of food safety. In this regard, KFC and McDonald's issued a statement this afternoon to clarify this matter.
According to CCTV reports, the farms that produce "instant chicken" can grow to 6 or 7 kilograms in 40 days with 24-hour light and hormone feeding. In order to avoid the death of chickens, "Fast Chicken" should eat at least 18 kinds of antibiotics. These antibiotic chickens and hormone chicken were purchased by Shandong Liuhe Group without inspection and quarantine, and about 40 tons of such broilers are supplied to KFC every month. At present, Pingdu Company of Liuhe Group has closed down for investigation. Shandong Yingtai Group, as a chicken supplier of KFC and McDonald's, also has irregularities. The "Fast Chicken" incident has finally arrived at Yum! S apologized, but only for the inappropriate comments made by the relevant person in charge in an interview with CCTV. And Liuhe's parent company, New Hope [12.36 -0.08% shares research report] Group, also voiced for the first time and apologized to consumers.
In the explanation of recent public concerns released by KFC official website, Yum! Admit that "several batches of samples of supplier Liuhe Group were found to exceed the standard". Regarding the suspension of Liuhe Chicken, Yum said that it was "considering its own quality management ability and other comprehensive factors, it completely terminated Liuhe Group's supplier qualification".
In the explanation, Yum said that the inappropriate comments made by the heads of relevant departments of Yum in an interview on 201219 caused social misunderstanding, and Yum hereby clarified and sincerely apologized. Yum said that the statement that the relevant personnel mentioned the testing cost in the interview was incomplete and seriously misled the public. In fact, Yum paid the inspection fee according to the actual inspection items, and never paid any other fees to Shanghai Food and Drug Inspection Institute and Shanghai US Food and Drug Administration.
In addition, New Hope, the parent company of Shandong Liuhe, also issued an announcement yesterday to apologize to consumers for the dereliction of duty of the company's subsidiaries in this incident. This is the first announcement made by New Hope since the incident.
The company that was exposed to buy white feather broilers from rural farmers is Pingdu Refrigeration Factory under Shandong Liuhe Group, a subsidiary of New Hope. Yesterday, New Hope said in the announcement that the relevant personnel have been suspended for review, and will be dealt with seriously according to the investigation results, and the direct management personnel who are not strict in the procurement process will be dismissed. The "medicine chicken" incident is still fermenting. 2065 438+02 2065 438+02 KFC parent company Yum! Catering Group (hereinafter referred to as Yum! ), finally apologized, but this apology was not aimed at consumers, but at the inappropriate comments made by the relevant person in charge in an interview with CCTV. Delicious! It is also admitted that six or several batches of sample drug residues have been found to exceed the standard, but there is no intention of "hiding". It is worth noting that McDonald's, once silent, later admitted that Shandong Liuhe and Yingtai Company (hereinafter referred to as "Liuhe") were its secondary suppliers.
Kfc "apologizes"
20 12 February 28th 12 Yum! Admit that several batches of samples of Liuhe Group were found to exceed the standard. "Based on this, at 20 1 1, Yum! Stopped the supply qualification of Linyi factory, the main problem factory; 20 12 years, Yum! The products supplied by other factories of Liuhe Group were sampled for 9 times, and all the results were qualified. However, considering its comprehensive factors such as quality management capabilities, Liuhe Group's supplier qualification was completely terminated. " At the same time, Yum believes that "in view of the fact that relevant national laws and regulations do not require enterprises to report the results of self-inspection to the government and disclose the results of self-inspection to the society, Yum has no intention of' concealing'".
Mcdonald's "confession"
Another protagonist, McDonald's, also changed his mind and admitted that Shandong Liuhe and Yingtai were its second-tier suppliers under the pressure of public opinion. "Liuhe is our second-tier supplier," said the public relations manager of McDonald's China headquarters in an interview with Dragon TV and Fujian Satellite TV. We don't buy directly from them. Quality control is controlled by first-class suppliers. As for where the second goods come from, there is no way to delve into this. "
McDonald's also said that they would monitor every batch of chicken products. So far, it has not been found that the chicken supplied by Liuhe has excessive antibiotics, but the testing items do not include hormones. They have stopped using chicken products purchased from Liuhe since 65438+February 18.
It is worth noting that after the exposure of the crash chicken incident, McDonald's has kept a low profile compared with KFC, which frequently made statements and responses. Previously, it only issued a statement saying that "every batch of chicken used by McDonald's has been tested and confirmed by a third-party independent laboratory, and our chicken products meet strict food quality standards and meet relevant government standards". In this unique statement, McDonald's did not mention the identity of the supplier.
However, unlike KFC's direct purchase of raw materials, McDonald's indirectly purchases raw materials through agents, that is, its first-tier supplier Fuxi Food Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Fuxi") purchases chicken from its second-tier supplier Liuhe Group, thus reaching the McDonald's table.
It is understood that there are currently three first-class suppliers of McDonald's, namely Fuxi, Mingji Food Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Mingji") and Ousheng Industry (Fujian) Co., Ltd., among which Fuxi and Mingji do not raise chickens themselves, but purchase directly.
"Supervising secondary suppliers through primary suppliers is actually equivalent to setting up a wall for McDonald's. Once there is a problem with the secondary supplier, McDonald's can say that this is the dereliction of duty of the primary supplier, and its responsibility is very clear. " Wu Junfeng, a lawyer of Jiangsu Nuofa Law Firm, said in an interview with the reporter of International Finance News.
In this regard, Gao Jianfeng, managing director of Boji Consulting, said that there is a so-called firewall concept, and secondary suppliers are supervised through primary suppliers. However, from the perspective of supplier system, important raw material suppliers are all within the company management system, which does not mean that there is no responsibility for not dealing directly with McDonald's.
Chicken raising mode needs to be rectified
It is worth noting that in addition to KFC and McDonald's, more and more fast food brands that use instant chicken, including Pizza Hut, Beijing Yoshinoya and Belmont, are involved in this matter.
Gong Guifen, Deputy Secretary-General of China Animal Husbandry Association and Secretary-General of Poultry Branch, said that the food safety control of chicken is a whole process control system that runs through chicken breeding, feed production, slaughtering and processing, logistics storage and even the table of consumers. Problems in any link may lead to major food safety accidents.
Wu Junfeng believes that the crash chicken incident is short-term negative and long-term positive for the industry. "Like the melamine incident, the hidden rules of the industry may affect demand in the short term, but it will be conducive to the healthy development of the industry in the long run."