日本：麦当劳召回13500箱牛奶

McDonald's Japan pulls bad milk from stores

Associated Press 5:50 AM CDT, July 18, 2007

摘要：麦当劳日本公司说，已从它的快餐连锁点召回了1万3千500多箱牛奶，因为这些牛奶中可能含有大肠杆菌。虽然麦当劳说这并不会对人体健康造成很大危险，但它仍准备对那些购买了受污染牛奶的顾客给予赔偿，并对此次事件给消费者带来麻烦和不安表示由衷的抱歉。麦当劳说，在进行回收之前已在东京地区的连锁店出售了146箱可能受到污染的牛奶，不过到目前为止还没有收到任何因饮用这些牛奶而生病的报告。

McDonald's Japan has pulled over 13,500 cartons of milk from its restaurants because they could contain bacteria, the company said Wednesday.

The packets could be contaminated with coliform bacteria but did not pose a big risk to human health, the fast-food chain said in a statement.

Still, McDonald's Corp. is ready to reimburse customers who bought the tainted milk, the statement said. McDonald's said it sold 146 possibly contaminated cartons in restaurants around Tokyo before the product was pulled.

"We express our heartfelt apologies for the trouble and worry we have caused our customers," the statement said.

McDonald's blamed a faulty valve at a factory east of Tokyo for the contamination. The company has not received any reports of people falling sick from the bad milk, according to the statement.

McDonald's is Japan's biggest fast food chain, with over 3,800 restaurants across the country.