It has been two weeks ever since McDonald's Corp pulled items such as beef and chicken burgers from its menu as its supplier Shanghai Husi Food Co. was probed for using expired meat. The company has announced that this week it will resume its full menu in some Chinese cities.

In a statement today, the company said that in Beijing and Guangzhou the customers will be able to buy all the items on the menu by the end of this week. The total number of cities where the menu will be resumed was not mentioned by the company but they did specify that they will be increasing orders from other existing suppliers in China and will also be exploring new ones.

This entire problem started back on July 20 when Shanghai's state-owned Dragon TV investigated Shanghai Husi Food Co., a unit of McDonald's long-term supplier OSI Group LLC, made use of expired meat and added sell-by dates of another year. All this came to light as the TV channel took footage of workers using meat that fell on the floor, as well as mixing several-months-old expired meat with fresh meat. This raised some serious fears for food safety in the country.

Besides McDonald's the supplier the OSI Group supplies ingredients to other restaurants like Yum! Brands Inc. and Papa John's International Inc.

In China McDonald's is the second largest food chain considering market share and the company apologized to its customers for this incident.