Not sure where this should be posted, but this could affect many FReepers with young children or grandchildren. Consumers are warned to immediately stop using these glasses.
Thank you.
Or, just don’t lick the outside of the glass.
0bama husteria.
McDonald’s still says the glasses are safe.
McDonald’s spokesmen assured the public that they may continue to eat the toxic food, however.
Cadmium? That’s good for you, right?
/kidding
You too can turn green and disfigured like your favorite movie ogre just from drinking from these fun new glasses!
Also available in Lovable Lead, Marvelous Mercury and Ultimate Uranium. Collect them all!
I can’t speak for anyone else, but where I’m from we drink stuff from the inside (non-painted) part of the glass, and manage not to lick the outside.
All together now.....China?
McDonald's glasses do...
Knowing that my son is at home right now drinking juice from one of these glasses, as soon as I read this alarmist story I became alarmed, flew in to a blind panic and ran around my office in an ever-widening circle screaming “What’ll we do, What’ll we do, What’ll we do; will someone PLEASE think of the CHILdren...”, until I slammed face first into a door frame.
Now my head hurts and my glasses are broken.
I think I’m going to sue McDonalds...
I hope it doesn’t leach into my Everclear.
What do they mean by cheap? They’re selling them for $1.99 per glass. Doesn’t sound ‘cheap’ to me.
I would think since they’re being recalled, they would become a collector’s item.
I'll bet that the cheap glasses were made in China...
Just kidding... Yes, I'm a troublemaker...
Thanks for this post. We have four glasses.
I really, really hate companies that do business with the Chinese Communist.
Here is hoping that company gets sued into the next century...
Just wondering. Anybody have any idea what would happen if you place the recalled glasses in the dishwasher, with other dishes and cups? I was wondering if I just ruined my dishware.
That Shrek is so ugly he’d cut down any fatso’s Big Mac consumption to four a meal and Mrs. Shrek looks like she’s super sized her fires too many times herself.
TO GET CANCER
In Shrek the movie there is "Donkey". In the manufacturing of these glasses there is "Jackass".
From another report on this incident:
“All the recalled jewelry was made in China. The drinking glasses are the first American-made products to be recalled.
“Wolfson said the recalled glasses have “far less cadmium” than the recalled jewelry. He would not say how much cadmium leached from the glasses in tests, only that it was “slightly above the protective level currently being developed by the agency.”
“Arc is a French company with a plant in New Jersey; its origins as a glassmaker date to 1825. The company said that it has been making glasses for McDonald’s for 15 years and that levels of cadmium used in the enamel baked into the glass were within current federal safety guidelines.
“Biagi, Arc’s vice president of North American sales, said the company was surprised and confused when it got word of the recall Thursday night.
“Our feeling is these glasses are safe,” Biagi said.
“Biagi said the images on the glasses were made with enamel baked into them rather than paint, a common process. HE DID NOT IDENTIFY ARC’S SUPPLIERS.”
From: http://www.kitv.com/health/23789574/detail.html
It’ll be interesting to see who the supplier was, if it is ever divulged.