MEAT SUPPLIER AWAITS VERDICT ON CRUNCH FOOD SAFETY TRIAL

Many eyes are trained on the Jiading district people’s court in Shanghai this week, which is due to deliver a verdict in the trial of staff from two subsidiaries of the OSI Group LLC, the Illinois-based US meat firm that is a major meat supplier in China. The trial’s proceedings concluded at the end of December and featured Shanghai Husi Foods Ltd and Hebei Husi Food Ltd, which, along with 10 employees, had been charged by prosecutors in September. A statement posted by the Shanghai Municipal People’s Procuratorate on September 30 had stated the ...


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