After eating at McDonalds, one hundred people became violently ill

സാന്റവിച്ചും കെന്റക്കിഫ്രൈയും മറ്റും സ്വാദോടെ അടിച്ചുകേറ്റുമ്പോള്‍, അരെങ്കിലും ഈ ഫൈവ്സ്റ്റാര്‍ അടുക്കളകളിലെ വൃത്തിയെ കുറിച്ചു ചിന്തിക്കാറുണ്ടോ? ആര്‍ക്കും അതിനു സമയം കിട്ടില്ല. പക്ഷേ dateline നടത്തിയ രഹസ്യകാമറ അന്വേഷണം വെളിവാക്കുന്നതു് ഭീകരമായ ചിത്രമാണു്. ഈ ലേഖനം ഫാസ്റ്റുഫുഡിന്റെ ഓരോ ആരാധകനും വായിച്ചിരിക്കേണ്ടതാണു്.

Fast food: It’s served fast and you eat it fast, maybe too fast to notice the restaurant is a little dirty. The fact is that no one has ever done a national survey looking at the cleanliness of fast food chains — until now. Recently, we took our Dateline cameras undercover for the first-ever investigation of whether America’s top 10 fast food chains are clean and safe. How did your favorite restaurant do?We're a nation fueled by fast food: burgers and fries, tacos, fried chicken. It’s hot, tasty and easy. And with millions and millions of meals sold every day, most of us just assume it’s all clean and safe. But when it’s not, it can be devastating.After eating at this McDonalds in Erwin, Tenn., last March, one hundred people became violently ill. Some ended up in the hospital, dehydrated and even hallucinating. The Centers for Disease Control says sick restaurant employees very likely contaminated food with a virus, although McDonald’s disputes that.Story continues below ↓ advertisementMeanwhile, after eating at a KFC in Colorado, Gianni Velotta was infected with a dangerous salmonella bacteria. His mother says he almost died.Natalie Velotta: “His kidneys weren’t working. I mean, there’s just no words to explain how bad it actually was.” How do your favorite restaurants rate? Was there any way to prevent it? Well, had Natalie Velotta checked, she’d have learned health inspectors had cited and fined that KFC just a few months earlier.Velotta: “If I would have known that they had several health violations, I would not have eaten there.”But who has time to check health inspection reports before they go to a fast food restaurant? Virtually no one, so Dateline decided to do it.The biggest 10 chains have 75,000 restaurants. We couldn’t look at all of them, so we hired a survey company to choose a sample, 100 restaurants from each chain, 1,000 in all, spanning 38 states.

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