Shanghai Husi Food and its US based parent company OSI Group have been fined more than CNY24.3m ($3.6m) by the Shanghai Municipal Food and Drug Administration for preparing and selling sub-standard meat products.
While Shanghai Husi Food was fined CNY17m ($2.5m), its owner OSI Group was fined CNY7.3m ($1.0m), reported Shanghai Daily.
The meat scandal was exposed in July 2014 when a Chinese channel named as Dragon TV allegedly revealed usage of expired meat, manipulation of production dates besides other unhygienic methods carried out by workers at a Shanghai unit of OSI.
McDonald’s and KFC owner Yum Brands, clients of OSI, which used the out-of-date meats, had apologized for the scandal, Reuters reported.
Following the expose of the scandal, Shanghai Husi and its parent company have been hit by fines from various corners.
In February, Shanghai Husi and an OSI unit were ordered by a Shanghai court to pay fines while 10 of its employees were sentenced to prison terms.
Earlier this week, Jiading district's Market Supervision and Management Bureau had imposed an additional fine of CNY16.98m ($2.54m) on Shanghai Husi.
The company’s food production license was also cancelled and its food products and illegal profits were confiscated, the Chinese newspaper reported
In July, Shanghai Husi’s appeal to review the February sentence was dismissed by a Shanghai court.