This is a special year for McDonald's chicken nuggets with the fast-food giant celebrating the 40th birthday of the iconic Chicken McNuggets with new menu items. However, in the past month, this fan-favourite menu items has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. First, McDonald's was found liable after its chicken nuggets causes severe injuries to a child. Then there was a case of a customer who started vomiting after finding something shocking in her Chicken McNuggets order.
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Now, as reported by Stuff, a McDonald's restaurant in Auckland is in the news as a child allegedly fell sick after eating under-cooked chicken nuggets.
Family served undercooked McNuggets in Auckland
As per the report, Anna Cooper ordered chicken nuggets from the Hillmorton McDonald’s location earlier this week. Her husband ripped some of the hot nuggets so that they were cool enough to be served to their child.
She noticed that the nuggets did not look right, as they were pink but she was too late to interject as her son already started eating them. She recounts the incident saying.
He gave them to him and he hadn’t looked at them, but I noticed that the two that were left on his tray were pink and he’d already eaten one.
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Undercooked food is a health hazard
She realised her son just ate under-cooked food and made him drink plenty of water to flush it out of the system. Though the child was find on that day, he got sick and vomited many times the following day. The mother expressed her frustration and anger saying,
Train your blimmin staff properly, I used to work at Maccas so I know everything has a time, everything has its own button ... I just don’t know how they aren’t checking these things.
I think home cooked chicken nuggets are the only way to go now,
A McDonald's spokesperson responded to Stuff saying,
Restaurant management have been in contact with the customer, to check on the wellbeing of the customer’s child and explain the investigation process, and immediate actions taken
The spokesperson also assured that the brand takes food safety very seriously and will do more work in order to share findings and learning with all their restaurants.
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Stuff: 'Undercooked McDonald's chicken nuggets leave young child sick'