'Instant chicken' farms shut down
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Overcrowded houses
Poultry farmers told reporters that without antibiotics, their chickens could die within two days in overcrowded chicken houses.
Qingdao government officials said they would punish the companies involved if tests indicated wrongdoing and problem products would be recalled and destroyed.
According to CCTV footage, batches of what it called "instant chicken" were ready to be served at fast food restaurants after they were transported to the Shanghai logistics center of Yum Brands Inc, the world's largest restaurant company and owner of KFC and Pizza Hut.
Officials at the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration said that they had launched an investigation into Yum Brands, which was reported to have purchased the batches of chicken and stored them at its logistics center.
The investigation found that the center purchased the last batch of chicken from the Liuhe Group in May and sold all of it. After that, it no longer bought goods from the company, the center said.
The FDA said on Tuesday that they were checking 32 samples from eight kinds of poultry products stored at the logistics center, and the results would be known as early as today.
In the news program, a CCTV reporter followed a truck carrying the chicken and found that it was taken to Yum Brands' logistics center and later sent to its restaurants, including a KFC in the Pudong New Area.
KFC has about 300 stores in Shanghai.
KFC China said the company stopped buying chicken from the Liuhe Group in August.
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