Doctors Group Wins Partial Victory against Grilled Chicken Restaurants

[The Straight Story]

Doctors Group Wins Partial Victory against Grilled Chicken Restaurants


Seeking notification that would warn customers of popular restaurant chains about the dangers of eating grilled chicken, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine won a partial victory in a California appellate court. The group filed a lawsuit seeking to force McDonald’s, TGIFriday’s, Outback Steakhouse, Chili’s, Chick-Fil-A and Applebee’s to post the following notice: “Warning: Well-cooked chicken, including the chicken served in this restaurant, contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer.”

The physicians claim grilled chicken may contain chemicals, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and PhIP, which can cause cancer and birth defects.

They lost their first trial in district court after a judge accepted the restaurants’ argument that the warning was pre-empted by the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act because it conflicted with federal policy.

But the Los Angeles-based Second District Court of Appeal ruled the proposed warning did not conflict with federal policy concerning chicken, although the appellate court stopped short of endorsing the specific warning.

http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/ViewNews/Doctors_Group_Wins_Partial_Victory_against_Grilled_Chicken_Restaurants_100818

In CA they had stickers on the windows of the Ambulances at the place I worked stating that the chemicals used in the making of the vehicle could cause cancer.

[dkf]

1. What is the point of telling you where you work is carcinogenic?

Are you supposed to quit?

[The Straight Story]

3. In CA, living causes cancer :) They got the smokers out of some bars though

So now the only thing causing cancer is everything else there :rofl:

[patrice]

4. Perhaps you could take precautions: eat more alkaline foods, be faithful to

your cancer fighting foods, stop smoking etc. etc.

[elleng]

8. Problem is with EATING the stuff, NOT hanging around it!

[patrice]

2. OMG! You mean Chick Fil A isn't manna from heaven?? There's going to be some real disappointed

"Christians" around here.

[leftofcool]

5. News Flash....the environment is cancerous

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. PAHs are the natural consequences of grilling foods which contain carbon.

:shrug:

[hlthe2b]

7. and chicken "not well cooked" may well contain Salmonella or

Campylobacter. Both can be deadly and far more rapidly than from carcinogens. :shrug: