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Zhu Zongyi, president for the China business department of Yum! Brands Inc. [Photo/Xinhua]

Yum! Brands Inc, owning KFC and Pizza Hut and, is the world's leading restaurant company in terms of system restaurants with nearly 38,000 restaurants in more than 110 countries and territories and more than 1 million associates. The company, based in the US, generated more than $11 billion in revenue in 2010.

 

Concerns raised over food quality

A Sina micro-blogger writing under the name Fu Xiaoxiao Ki published a photo of boxes of soy milk powder piled outside a KFC outlet in Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong province, and accused KFC of using soymilk powder or concentrate as the basis of soymilk drinks in China rather than using fresh beans.

KFC stated on its official website that its soymilk drinks are made from soymilk powder, and emphasized that the quality of its soymilk products complied with safety standards in China. [Full story]

Customers line up at a KFC shop in Shijiazhuang, capital of North China's Hebei province. The chain's soybean milk, provided only to the Chinese market, is not made from fresh-ground beans, although many customers thought so. [Photo/China Daily]

 

KFC denies excessive brightener in containers

A reporter based in Guangzhou took samples of paper cups in April from seven random brands from a supermarket, and a "family barrel" paper container and a Coca-Cola cup from KFC. The reporter sent the samples to the Food Engineering department at South China University of Technology. The primary results showed that only two paper cups meet standards.

Shanghai KFC Co Ltd said that paper containers for its "family barrels" meet national standards in terms of fluorescent brightener, media reported. [Full story]

 

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