According to the reporters of the undercover McDonald's Zhengzhou Excellence Agricultural Federation Restaurant and McDonald's Jinan University Restaurant, the two undercover restaurants have expired or even expired products by modifying the shelf life label to extend the use time, so as to achieve the purpose of "prolonging life", and then sell them again.
In addition to this, McDonald's restaurants were also found to have a problem of cutting corners. The standard of scrambled double egg burger is to require 8 eggs to be scrambled, in order to save costs, only 7 eggs are used, and they claim that "they can't be seen even if they are scrambled"; For the sauce used to make the McSpicy Chicken Leg Burger and McFragrant Chicken Burger, the sauce has been reduced from the standard 20ml to 10ml, and it is also specially advised to change it if there is an inspection.
In addition, McDonald's Zhengzhou Excellent Agricultural Union Restaurant was also exposed to the long-term use of frying oil, and it was determined that its frying oil had seriously exceeded the standard.
This news even appeared on the front page of the Beijing News on May 13, which had to arouse the attention of the general public, as well as the reflection of major businesses, especially McDonald's.
Repeat offender: A frequent customer of McDonald's food exposure
According to inquiries, this is not the first time that McDonald's has been exposed to food safety-related problems.
In 2012, CCTV's "3.15" party named a McDonald's restaurant for illegal operations such as refurbishment and resale of expired food. Its behavior has even been included in the textbook topic of the market economy.
Negative textbook, already in question
However, in 2021 and 2022, some stores were successively exposed to problems such as replacing expired food labels.
Until now, McDonald's still has this kind of situation, whether it is the degradation of human nature or the lack of law.
McDonald's Store Manager: Internal quality standards are only enforced at the time of inspection
After each exposure, McDonald's officially stated that it would carry out rectification as required, and internally formulated a time bar for standardized management methods, defined the "second shelf life" standard, and so on. However, the process of implementation is often very different.
In McDonald's kitchens, employees are required to label the time bars after they take the ingredients out of the freezer, marking the thawing time, availability time and expiration time. When the ingredients expire, they need to be discarded. Then, according to the actual observation of the undercover reporter, the so-called time bar is nothing more than an ornament, and anyone has the right to modify it at any time and use it again.
Similarly, according to McDonald's regulations, the fried lute legs also need to be stored in the holding cabinet, and the countdown function needs to be turned on, and those that are not sold within the specified 20 minutes need to be discarded. But during the undercover period of the reporter, the holding cabinet with the timer function was basically not used
When asked why there was no implementation of the standard, the employee said: the standard is just the standard. All inspection methods need to be taken care of only at the time of inspection.
Comments from netizens
Some netizens said that there should not be high expectations for the hygienic environment of fast food restaurants, but this is too outrageous, using expired ingredients, and not putting the health of customers in the first place at all.
I thought it would be bad, but I didn't expect it to be so bad [covering my face]
There are still a lot of netizens who have been recruited, and this netizen seems to have taken children to eat, and he also gives discounts every day, no matter how much he gives, he doesn't dare to eat again.
Netizens said that you believed it so much, but you were still deceived by you.
Yes, who else can you trust in this world but yourself? What's more, it's still a merchant who is staring at the money in your pocket [covering his face], so you can still do it yourself
Some netizens also said that McDonald's is much better than many roadside self-employed people
I don't make too many comments on this, and without investigation, I don't have the right to speak. But I don't think we can lower our requirements too much, so why not give up treatment?
summary
The state has been emphasizing food safety-related issues, and major enterprises have also formulated their own food safety treatment processes, but they still expect everyone to be able to come in accordance with the law and regulations, and not to show one set and one set behind the scenes.
For the majority of customer groups, it is also necessary to strengthen their awareness of food safety, and dare to refuse and report businesses that violate regulations and do not meet food safety. Finally, self-made should be the safest, so friends who are qualified can consider it~
Have you noticed any other non-compliant food operations at McDonald's? Have you seen similar behavior from other merchants? Will everyone be willing to continue to patronize such McDonald's? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area to discuss~