According to an investigation by a Norwegian television channel, the toilets of the McDonald’s chain are cleaner than the tables, real nests for bacteria.
TV2 television station bioluminescently scanned tables at five McDonald’s in Oslo, Norway.
The controls revealed that they “showed amounts of microorganisms much higher than the recommended level and … than that measured in the toilets“, reports the Nouvel Observateur.
Ineffective cleaning
But how do you explain that tables are even dirtier than toilets? For Lena Furuberg, hygiene expert at the Norwegian Technological Institute, present on the TV2 program, it is the cleaning methods that are not suitable. “It looks like they’re just using a cloth and they’re actually just spreading bacteria from table to table,” she said.
She explained that: “Microorganisms are found everywhere, but, in this case, the quantities found are far beyond what one is entitled to expect in a paid restaurant.“.
On the other hand, the investigation does not reveal the nature of the bacteria found on the tables nor the potentially harmful effects on health, nor if this is valid in McDonald’s restaurants in France.
