McDonald's Australia breaches fast food labelling laws
posted on 8th September 2015
McDonald's is being forced to change its signage across Australia after the fast food chain's new display boards were found to breach labelling laws in NSW. Recently-introduced electronic menu displays make customers wait for up to a minute to view health information for each product, only show the information for about seven seconds and do not show how many kilojoules are in each item, says the Sydney Morning Herald.
The menus appeared to breach NSW food labelling laws that demand fast food outlets show the kilojoules in each product next to the price and in the same size writing.
Health groups called for McDonald's to be brought into line with the rules and the chain now says it will change its menus across the country by the end of September.
"In consultation with the NSW Food Authority we have proactively made some edits to our new digital menu boards to enable additional comparison between products," McDonald's spokesman Chris Grant said on Monday.
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