Bruce Nye has a photo of a pointless new warning McDonald’s has posted in California stores to avoid litigation. The warning seems to have a side safety benefit: by the time you finish reading it, your coffee won’t be hot any more.
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The part about how the FDA doesn’t recommend to stop eating potatoes reminds me of OBQuiet’s suggested warning when KFC was fighting this nonsense.
http://overlawyered.com/2007/05/and-more-may-17-updates/#comment-7318
The bakers ought to shutdown for a week to in protest. Most of the public do not realize that almost anything that is cooked at tempertures over 275F will have acrylamides produced. Time for some education.
“Recognized as a serious food safety issue”
Oy.
Is there any chemical that the state of California has deemed non-cancerous?
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