Chinese officials have charged 10 people who worked for OSI
Corp. of Aurora, Illinois, in a Chinese plant preparing meats for a number of
fast-food restaurant chains, including McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Shanghai HUSI Food Co. recalled some products that had been
made with meat that was found to be expired during a probe by a Chinese
television station.
Six employees were arrested
in 2014 and the scandal cost OSI the loss of customers and hundreds of
layoffs at the plant last fall.
A processing manager was among the 10 people formally
charged this week by the Shanghai People’s Protectorate, according to a report
in the Wall Street Journal.
Some of the employees charged last year have spent the
intervening months in jail as OSI agreed to cooperate with the investigation at
the time of the initial charges.
