Chinese language district regulator inspects Pizza Hut shops over meals issues of safety

A Pizza Hut restaurant is seen in a mall in Shanghai, China September 18, 2018. REUTERS/Aly Music

BEIJING, July 21 (Reuters) – A Chinese language district regulator mentioned it’s finishing up inspections of 45 Pizza Hut shops in Beijing after one was accused by media of meals security breaches.

The market regulator of Beijing’s Haidian district mentioned late on Wednesday that it had visited the department in query and checked out data of meals supplies purchases, storage and expiry dates.

The chain run by Yum China (9987.HK) got here below scrutiny earlier this week after the Beijing Information reported two of its shops in Beijing, together with the one in Haidian district, allegedly had pretend expiration dates on merchandise and had reused cooking oil over 10 days.

Pizza Hut mentioned it had suspended operation of the 2 shops and was finishing up its personal probe.

“We connect nice significance to the problems reported by the media,” it mentioned on its Weibo account on Wednesday. It declined to offer additional remark.

The inspections come months after one other Pizza Hut department in Beijing was fined 50,000 yuan ($7,394) by Fengtai district market authorities for utilizing expired meals supplies. Pizza Hut has greater than 2,600 shops in China.

Chinese language customers and media have grow to be more and more delicate about client rights and meals security after a sequence of scandals, and maintain an in depth eye on the behaviour of massive manufacturers, particularly these from overseas.

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($1 = 6.7621 Chinese language yuan renminbi)

Reporting by Sophie Yu and Brenda Goh; Modifying by Stephen Coates

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