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Article: McDonald's food disclosure action called misleading
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 10, 1986
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McDonald's fast-food chain was accused yesterday of attempting
to "mislead the public" by announcing that "consumer interest" is
causing it to reveal the contents of its food, when it is under legal
pressure to do so in several states.
Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox said McDonald's and four other
major fast-food chains had consented to make the information
available.
A McDonald's publicity release Monday was a "calculated effort
to make the public think they were doing this out of the goodness of
their heart, when in fact they were doing it because of pressure from
our office," said Steve Gardner, an assistant to Mattox.
But a McDonald's vice president, Dick Starmann, denied that ...