date:Feb 24, 2014
of bribery in Mexico, its biggest business outside the United States. It later launched graft probes in China and Brazil and in India, where the investigation hit its first-mover advantage in a $500 billion market.
The graft has less of an effect on the business in China, but food safety scandals - from fatal tainted milk to recycled 'gutter oil' used for cooking - have hurt it. In January, Wal-Mart recalled its popular Five Spice donkey meat after tests showed traces of fox meat.
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