{"id":7868,"date":"2019-05-31T09:39:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T13:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/?p=7868"},"modified":"2020-04-21T08:52:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T12:52:28","slug":"a-laced-latte-in-lethbridge-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/a-laced-latte-in-lethbridge-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"A Laced Latte in Lethbridge, Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One contaminated latte, coming up!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Accidents can happen anywhere, even in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, where one 32-week pregnant woman purchased a laced latte at McDonald\u2019s in August 2018. \u00a0Sarah Douglas allowed it to cool before taking a sip. \u00a0She detected a strange taste to the latte and is now considering filing a lawsuit against McDonald\u2019s for what was later discovered floating around in her beverage.\u00a0 Available in Small, Medium, and Large, McDonald\u2019s advertises<\/a> their 140 calorie lattes as a \u201ctreat\u201d customized with \u201csteamed whole or nonfat milk\u201d with \u201cyour favorite flavor, including a rich vanilla latte, a toasty caramel latte, or a sweet, earthy hazelnut latte.\u201d \u00a0In this case, Sarah Douglas purchased a latte steamed with a chemical flavor.<\/p>\n

Not only was Sarah concerned about drinking a possibly contaminated latte<\/a>, but she was also worried about the health of her then unborn child. \u00a0She experienced an immediate reaction to whatever was in her drink, as her tongue started burning and felt numb and puffy. \u00a0Before returning to the McDonald\u2019s to investigate what happened, Sarah was able to wash her mouth out thoroughly from a water bottle in her car. \u00a0The initial resolution offered by the McDonald\u2019s supervisor who met with Sarah was to apologize and provide her with a new latte.<\/p>\n

Another employee intervened to explain the possible reason for the latte tasting strange, that the cleaning fluid line was still attached to the milk supply line on the coffee machine.\u00a0 In place of milk, the McDonald\u2019s employees were unknowingly, yet negligently, pouring cleaning fluid into every latte purchased that day.\u00a0 It was not until this one employee realized the error that the lines were corrected.\u00a0 Daily, the coffee machine lines are flushed with cleaning fluid and then replaced with the milk stream lines. \u00a0An employee had forgotten to complete the necessary maintenance steps to ensure a healthy product would be served to their customers.\u00a0 While Sarah left this incident unscathed and her baby unharmed, she recently expressed her gratitude for this story going public, so as to prevent any careless mishaps from repeating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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