A representative for McDonald’s, Becca Hary, did not immediately respond when asked which artificial preservatives are being removed.
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The fast food chain plans to replace fructose corn syrup in hamburger buns with sugar this month due to concerns that it may be linked to obesity and diabetes.
Despite this making food production more pricey McDonald’s senior vice president for supply chain, Marion Gross, has promised we’ll continue to pay the same price. So are artificial preservatives in Chicken McNuggets and some breakfast items. This announcement comes a year and a half after McDonald’s publicly committed to require its poultry suppliers to stop using medically important antibiotics, and after a continued dialogue with Friends of the Earth and a coalition of groups working to end the misuse of antibiotics in meat production.
McDonald’s originally set out to achieve its antibiotics chicken commitment by March 2017.Through a collaborative effort with its suppliers and farmers on a large scale, the company was able to make this change a reality and bring it to its customers almost a year ahead of schedule. Music provided courtesy of APM Music. Eater reports on the changes, with another report talking about test programs McDonald’s is running with fresh beef patties, instead of the frozen ones they’ve long used.
“Operational efficiency has actually moved down in the ranks of priority because we want to focus most of all on the food”, Lance Richards, vice president of menu strategy, told the Chicago Tribune in January.
Global food giant McDonald’s is cleaning up its menu by removing artificial preservatives and antibiotics from its popular processed food brands.
Coming to a McDonald’s near you – healthier sandwich buns, Chicken McNuggets and some breakfast items. Now it uses real butter.
“We are creating a different food culture at McDonald’s and that attitude is infused in everything that we do”, Mike Andres, president-McDonald’s U.S., said at a meeting with reporters at the company’s headquarters.
Extra costs related to the changes will not be passed on to consumers, partly because a decline in commodity prices has reduced some food expenses, Andres said.
– McDonald’s now is serving chicken that is free of antibiotics. The menu, which included premium items like chipolata sausage and Belgian waffles, heralded in the chain’s new prioritization of food quality over speed.
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“McDonald’s has done some incredible stuff over the years, in recent years, in improving the quality of the meat, and meat from animals that are well treated”.
