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Yum Brands Overhauls China Operations to Improve Food Safety

Yum Brands Overhauls China Operations to Improve Food Safety

Mar 4, 2013
Yum! Brands

Over 1,000 chicken suppliers to Yum Brands in China have been axed because the company finds it too hard to regulate and monitor small producers. The company’s KFC brand has been suffering in recent months after contaminated chicken was discovered in restaurants in China. To read more, click HERE.

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