OSI Group LLC, a meat supplier to McDonald's Corp, said it would recall all products made by its Shanghai plant.

"To help rebuild the trust . . . as well as to co-operate with the official investigatory process, we are compelled to withdraw all products manufactured by Shanghai Husi from the marketplace," Oak Brook, Illinois-based OSI said in a statement on its website. Chinese authorities have shut down OSI's Shanghai Husi Food Co plant for allegedly selling expired products.

The city’s police detained five people in connection with an investigation into the supplier, according to the Shanghai Municipal Food and Drug Administration.

According to a McDonald’s spokeswoman, the cmpany “had already stopped sourcing and serving product from Husi Shanghai upon learning of alleged food safety issues”.– (Bloomberg)