Lancet Jades
03-31-2004, 04:30 PM
I FOUND A TOOTH IN MY HAPPY MEAL
09:30 - 31 March 2004
Pregnant mother Kim Hasler spoke of her horror yesterday after she bit into a McDonalds takeaway and crunched on a human tooth. Kim said she was nearly sick when she found the object which has now been sent away for analysis in a laboratory.
"I went to bite into it and I heard a kind of crunch," she said.
" There was this hard object in my burger. I took it out of my mouth and it was a tooth.
"I could not believe it - I thought it might have been one of my teeth but I checked and it definitely wasn't.
"I was absolutely disgusted. It's the most horrible thing I have ever eaten."
Kim, 18, said a friend bought the burger in a Happy Meal for her at a McDonalds take-away in Torquay, Devon.
The shop is located near Torbay Hospital, where the mum-to-be was being treated for abdominal pains and early contractions.
"This is the last thing I needed," she said. "They wanted to take the tooth off me, but another customer overheard and told me to keep it for evidence.
"Then they offered me a free meal which I thought was a cheek."
Kim, who lives in Torquay with boyfriend Steve Still, 33, a chef, and is expecting her baby in June, has contacted a solicitor and said she is considering legal action against McDonalds.
In a letter, the fast food company apologised to Kim and repeated its request for her to send the object to them.
A spokesman for McDonalds said: "We are extremely concerned to hear about Miss Hasler's experience. We are currently investigating and our customer service department will liaise with her to resolve this."
Kim has passed the object to Torbay Environmental Health, which has sent it to a food technology laboratory for analysis.
A council spokesman said: "We are following up a complaint and an investigation is ongoing."
09:30 - 31 March 2004
Pregnant mother Kim Hasler spoke of her horror yesterday after she bit into a McDonalds takeaway and crunched on a human tooth. Kim said she was nearly sick when she found the object which has now been sent away for analysis in a laboratory.
"I went to bite into it and I heard a kind of crunch," she said.
" There was this hard object in my burger. I took it out of my mouth and it was a tooth.
"I could not believe it - I thought it might have been one of my teeth but I checked and it definitely wasn't.
"I was absolutely disgusted. It's the most horrible thing I have ever eaten."
Kim, 18, said a friend bought the burger in a Happy Meal for her at a McDonalds take-away in Torquay, Devon.
The shop is located near Torbay Hospital, where the mum-to-be was being treated for abdominal pains and early contractions.
"This is the last thing I needed," she said. "They wanted to take the tooth off me, but another customer overheard and told me to keep it for evidence.
"Then they offered me a free meal which I thought was a cheek."
Kim, who lives in Torquay with boyfriend Steve Still, 33, a chef, and is expecting her baby in June, has contacted a solicitor and said she is considering legal action against McDonalds.
In a letter, the fast food company apologised to Kim and repeated its request for her to send the object to them.
A spokesman for McDonalds said: "We are extremely concerned to hear about Miss Hasler's experience. We are currently investigating and our customer service department will liaise with her to resolve this."
Kim has passed the object to Torbay Environmental Health, which has sent it to a food technology laboratory for analysis.
A council spokesman said: "We are following up a complaint and an investigation is ongoing."