Food brands stretched by India safety record

Moga, India

AT a McDonald's plant outside Mumbai, 200 workers walk through air dryers and disinfectant pools, then get to work making the day's 25,000 patties from chicken painstakingly sourced in a country with one of the world's worst food safety records.

To safeguard its multibillion-dollar brand, McDonald's said, more than 100 checks that it applies across its international operations are then carried out after that.