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Instagram posts
stated on November 18, 2024 in an Instagram post:

"McDonald’s offered 850 million to RFK for hush money” related to its frying oil.

By Jeff Cercone • November 19, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on September 29, 2024 in Instagram posts:

Video shows “FBI finds human remains at a McDonald’s meat supplier.”

By Sofia Ahmed • October 2, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on April 9, 2024 in a video:

Morton Salt and other plain and iodized table salts contain 25% sand and 25% glass that cut up “your arterial and venous network and that’s how you get high blood pressure.”

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • April 22, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on October 7, 2022 in a post:

Dark spots on potato chips are “infected with throat mold.”

By Andy Nguyen • October 19, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on July 27, 2022 in a Facebook reel:

Consuming “rice and beans, milk, cheese, butter and eggs” causes disease by age 30.

By Grace Abels • August 5, 2022
Instagram posts
stated on January 11, 2022 in a post:

“Million pounds of rat meat being sold as boneless chicken wings in the U.S.”

By Monique Curet • January 19, 2022
Viral image
stated on August 23, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"Popeyes manager arrested for allegedly dipping chicken in cocaine based flour to increase business sales."

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 23, 2019
Facebook posts
stated on January 9, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Pepsi admitted an employee contaminated its products with AIDS.

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 23, 2019
Bloggers
stated on August 3, 2017 in a web post:

"Human meat found in McDonald’s meat factory"

By Emily Tanaka • September 28, 2017
Shawn O'Connor
stated on April 25, 2016 in a press release:

"A simple review of the Backroom’s health code records will reveal that the restaurant already has a long-standing problem with rodent infestations."

By Allie Morris • April 27, 2016
Rush Limbaugh
stated on July 28, 2015 in an episode of The Rush Limbaugh Show:

Austin is "effectively" imposing "a ban on barbecue restaurants."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 4, 2015
Facebook posts
stated on August 27, 2014 in a Facebook meme:

"McDonald’s hamburgers are only 15 percent ‘real beef.’ The other 85 percent is meat filler cleansed with ammonia, which causes stomach and intestinal cancer."

By Linda Qiu • September 3, 2014
Bloggers
stated on November 29, 2010 in postings to the Internet:

New food safety legislation will regulate backyard gardening.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 1, 2010