KFC Criticized over Suppliers in China.docVIP

KFC Criticized over Suppliers in China 　　E xcessive amounts of antibiotics were found in eight batches of raw chicken samples taken from KFC supplier Shandong Liuhe Group from 2010 to 2011, the Shanghai Food Safety Office said in a recent statement. 　　In 2005, the Shanghai Institute for Food and Drug Control signed a contract with the China division of Yum Brands in Shanghai, which owns KFC, to provide third?party testing services for its raw materials and semi?finished products, the statement said. 　　From 2010 to 2011, a total of 19 batches of raw chicken samples from the Liuhe Group were tested, and eight of them were found to contain excessive amounts of antibiotics. All the testing reports were sent to Yum Brands. 　　The statement of the Shanghai Food Safety Office comes after China Central Television reported that some chicken farms in Shandong Province feed the birds with excessive amounts of antibiotics to reduce their death rate and shorten their growing period. 　　Animal nutrition experts said that chemical compound medicines, most antibiotics and hormones, are banned from being fed to stock and poultry. 　　The experts added that some chickens are fed large amount of antibiotics because many Chinese farmers don’t have the money or want to spend the money to raise the birds in larger and cleaner rails. 　　The CCTV report said that the chicken―which had unhealthy conditions and reached full growth within about 40 days―were sold to the Liuhe Group and Yingtai Co, both are KFC suppliers. 　　The CCTV report triggered public concern over the safety of the birds supplied to KFC, the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration carried out tests after taking 32 samples of raw chicken products from a logistics center belonging to Yum Brands in Shanghai. 　　Strict punishments will be handed out if any violation of food safety laws is found, the Shanghai Food Safety Office said. 　　This year, Yum Brands sent a total of 283 batches of samples for test, which didn’t include