On the evening of the 13th, McDonald's China's official website issued a statement on "McDonald's replaces the label of expired ingredients to renew their lives", the full text of which is as follows:
Thanks to the media for their oversight. We are actively cooperating with the local market supervision authorities to conduct investigations and verifications. We will not tolerate any violation of the operating standards and will take it seriously.
We apologize for the impact on the restaurants involved. It is our duty to further strengthen the implementation and enforcement of restaurant operating standards, and insist on passing on the correct values to every restaurant and every employee.
Previously reported
According to media reports, recently, the reporter went undercover for McDonald's Zhengzhou Excellent Agricultural Union Restaurant and McDonald's Jinan University Restaurant, and found that both restaurants had problems such as tampering with food expiration labels, using expired ingredients, selling food after the expiration date, and cutting corners. McDonald's Zhengzhou Excellent Agricultural Union Restaurant also has the situation that the quality of fried oil exceeds the standard.
The related topic then quickly appeared on the hot search, triggering discussions among netizens.
Some netizens said that they didn't expect it, and they always thought that McDonald's was quite clean.
Some netizens said that they had also eaten stale food at McDonald's before.
Some netizens also believe that takeaway things should be eaten less.
Source: The Paper, McDonald's official website, Beijing News