麦当劳麦乐鸡添加剂事件始末

McDonald’s has “strict quality control on all its food,” Jacky Sun, a spokesman for the company said by phone today.

麦当劳中国的发言人Jacky Sun在电话里说，“麦当劳有着严格的质量标准”。

McNuggets served in the U.S. also contain tertiary butylhydroquinone, a petroleum-based product, and dimethylpolysiloxane, an anti-foaming agent used in cosmetics and other goods. McDonald’s Holdings Co. Japan also serves chicken with the additives, which meet Japanese safety standards, Kazuyuki Hagiwara, a spokesman for the company said today. 

日本麦当劳的发言人Kazuyuki Hagiwara说，美国的麦乐鸡也有这两种化学物质，麦当劳在日本也含有食品添加剂，是符合日本的食品安全法的。

麦乐鸡问题爆出后，在美国也引发了讨论

(helium.com) McDonald’s customers in the United States should feel betrayed when they find out that the All-American restaurant is feeding them Chicken McNuggets laced with more chemicals and calories than McNuggets served in the United Kingdom.

麦当劳的美国顾客们可能会觉得自己遭到了背叛，这家遍布全国的快餐店提供给美国人民的麦乐鸡，化学物质含量和卡路里都比提供给英国人民的高。

A spokeswoman for McDonald’s seemed to minimize the significance of the discrepancies, telling cnn that they try to caterto every market.

一位麦当劳的女发言人更是企图把重大区别大事化小，告诉cnn说他们只是在迎合不同的市场。

In the end, the most significant difference between the two types of McNuggets as presented in the cnn report is the nutritional content, leaving open questions as to why the British are treated to healthier food than are Americans. To answer that question, cnn spoke with Christopher Kindall, author and television food show host. Kimball told cnn, “The regulations in Europe, in general, around food are much stricter than the U.S.”

最后，英美两国麦乐鸡最重要的就是营养成分的差别，留下了一个问题是为什么英国人能得到更健康的食物。cnn采访了电视饮食节目主持人和作家克里斯托弗，他说“通常欧洲的饮食标准比美国更严格”。

Although the discrepancy between McDonalds Chicken McNuggets on either side of the Atlantic may not seem significant, the implications could be serious: are American corporations willing to poison their own people just because regulations are more lax than they are in other countries?

虽然麦当劳的麦乐鸡在大西洋两边的差别看上去没那么重要，不过其中包含了一个很重要的问题，美国公司难道就因为美国标准比其他国家宽松就愿意毒害自己的人民么？

小编：看来不管是中国还是美国，公司做的都是符合最低标准的事情，不要指望他们会看重民族啊同胞啊之类的问题，一定要对他们高标准严要求。话说这年头，吃个东西还得认识这么多化学物质，老百姓容易么……