10-22 news: Cancer Project sues McDonald's, Burger King, Friendly's

“We’re not looking to have them stop selling the product,” Daniel Kinburn, a lawyer with the Cancer Project, said in a phone interview with Bloomberg. “The product is a legal though dangerous product that should be sold with a warning, like a chainsaw.”

All three restaurants have defended their food safety standards. Burger King issued a statement that read in part, “The compound referred to in the lawsuit, PhIP, is a naturally occurring by-product of the normal cooking process and is produced when any poultry, meat or fish is broiled, fried or grilled. There is no evidence that the small amount of PhIP contained in food poses a significant health risk.”