Mcdonald's sued for following the law
Three different parties are suing McDonald's for health reasons after the worldwide symbol of Americana updated its website to reveal that its french fries contain wheat and milk.
I support Mickey D's on this one. As long as their executives aren't snagging those Boardwalk and Park Place pieces from their Monopoly game, I've got no beef with them--pun intended.
Tags: McDonald's, FDA, frivolous lawsuits
Debra Moffatt from Illinois, a sufferer of celiac disease, which is triggered by eating gluten, is seeking unspecified damages for gastrointestinal symptoms that she claims resulted from eating McDonald's chips.McDonald's updated their website for a specific reason:
LA vegan Nadia Sugish is also suing the hamburger chain, claiming that she would not have eaten its chips had she known they contained milk.
And a couple from Florida are also taking legal action, claiming that their wheat-intolerant five-year-old daughter, Annalise Chimiak, was made seriously ill after eating the firm's fries.
The changes to the company's website were made following a revised labelling rule from the US Food and Drug Administration that requires firm's to disclose common food allergens in their products.Which means that McDonald's was not legally obligated to disclose such information before the FDA requirements were revised.
I support Mickey D's on this one. As long as their executives aren't snagging those Boardwalk and Park Place pieces from their Monopoly game, I've got no beef with them--pun intended.
Tags: McDonald's, FDA, frivolous lawsuits
posted by Seth at 7:28 PM
4 Comments:
McDonald's is being sued not because it complied with the law, but because the story it told until the law came along was a lie. Until the law was passed, McDonald's on its website listed french fries as safe for celiacs to eat, i.e., they were assuring us that it contained no gluten. When the law changed they suddenly decided to come clean. This is quite a shock for those of us who trusted their assertions that their products were safe for us to eat.
Thanks for the comment. You may be right on this one, and I may have read the story wrong. However, I'm still unsure:
If McDonald's wasn't required to reveal the presence of allergens in their fries until the FDA updated their rules, then was the company technically lying or simply not reporting what they weren't legally required to report?
In other words, I can definitely see how people would be hacked to find this out, but is McDonald's just a jerk or is it actually in legal trouble?
You should have said, "I've got no beef with them--bun intended."
Double bad puns are the best.
groans out loud
oh man...
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