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Kenneth Chan, CEO of McDonald's (China) Limited. [Photo/CFP]

McDonald's, founded in 1948 in the US, is the leading global foodservice retailer with more than 33,000 local restaurants serving more than 64 million people in 118 countries.

 

Some foreign fast food is harder to swallow

On Aug 1, a photo appeared on the popular Mop social networking website that showed burger buns, some in ripped wrappings, piled in the sun outside a McDonald's restaurant in Beijing. The picture was reposted hundreds of thousands of times.

This was the food safety issue. The open wrappings could allow flies or vermin into the packages of bread.

McDonald's later announced that it had punished the restaurant - responsible employees lost their jobs - and that the buns would not be used. [Full story]

 

Chicken nuggets safe, McDonald's assures public

Following a CNN report in late June that claimed US McDonald's chicken nuggets contain traces of two "harmful" chemicals, the fast food giant's China division admitted on Monday that its McNuggets also contained the additives.

However, McDonald's (China) Co Ltd assured its use of the two additives is "safe and harmless" to customers' health. [Full story]

A boy eats Chicken McNuggets at a McDonald's restaurant in Beijing in July, 2010. [Photo/China Daily]

 

McDonald's toxic glasses not sold in China

McDonald's China said that the Shrek-themed drinking glasses the fast food giant recalled in the US market due to toxic content are not sold in China. And the Coca-Cola glasses used in its Chinese promotion campaign for the 2010 World Cup are safe.

Cadmium has been discovered in the painted design on "Shrek"-themed drinking glasses being sold nationwide at McDonald's, forcing the fast food company to recall 12 million of the cheap US-made collectibles while dramatically expanding contamination concerns about the toxic metal beyond imported children's jewelry. [Full story]

 

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