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KFC food safety scares the public again
www.chinanews.cn 2007-03-09 11:03:39
(Source: CRIENGLISH.com)
KFC’s fried chicken wings. [File Photo: dianping.vchi.cn]
Mar.9 – Kentucky Fried Chicken, the US fast food giant has again sparked
food safety concerns around China, with its outlets being accused of
repeatedly using same frying oil for as many as 10 days, which experts
believe may cause cancer.
The Guangzhou-based Information Times reports that KFC branches in some
cities in northwest Shaanxi Province have been discovered putting
Magnesium Trisilicate into frying oil to prolong its usage. Magnesium
Trisilicate is a white, odorless and tasteless powder, which can
decolorize and absorb the odor and some impurities of the overused turbid
oil, as well as reducing its acidity and oxidization. After being
“polished,” the cooking oil is used over and over again for up to 10 days
by some KFC outlets in Xianyang city, Shaanxi Province.
However, the KFC Corp (China) claimed on Thursday that the overused oil
is concern-free as it is in compliance with the national food safety
standard. It argues that the “oil purifier” is approved by the US Food
and Drug Administration as a safe aide substance. Experts with the World
Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nation all agree that the powder purifier can be used as food additive.
KFC Corp (China) argues it will stop using it the time it is found to
breach China’s food safety standard.
Despite KFC’s defense, food experts have not yet being convinced as they
believe that even if their additive itself is safe, repeatedly used oil
is no longer safe. Harmful substances will be produced after being heated
time after time. Acrylamide and Benzopyrene, for instance, could always
be two types of harmful side-products from frying French fries and
chickens. These two side products are widely believed to cause cancer.
Health authorities in Xianyang, Yulin, and Xi’an, three local cities of
Shaanxi Province, have inspected KFC outlets and confiscated their “oil
powder”. The provincial health administration has also reported the case
to the Health Ministry for further investigation.
In similar response, local health authority of southern China’s
Guangzhou, has also decided to inspect cooking oils in all KFC outlets in
the city.
This is the third time KFC has been involved in food safety panic in
China. In March 2005, Sudan 1, a kind of carcinogenic food dye, was
discovered in New Orleans roast chicken wings, a popular food produced by
KFC. Last November, KFC’s safety scare emerged again in China after KFC
outlets in the US were found to be using artificial fats although KFC
Corp (China) said then it cooked its fried chickens in a healthier edible
oil, which did not contain the harmful trans-fatty acids used in US
branches of KFC.
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