Pharmacy Daily | Dispensary Corner 09 Jun 10

A HEALTH scare at fast food chain McDonald’s has led the company to recall twelve million special promotional drinking glasses which are on sale across the USA to help market the new Shrek movie. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has warned consumers to immediately stop using the glasses, because the designs painted on them contain small amounts of cadmium. The fast food giant said it was initiating the recall “out of an abundance of caution,” with a spokesman saying the company believes the glassware is safe for consumer use. However there’s a possibility that small amounts of cadmium could come to the surface of the glass, with McDonalds and the CPSC saying the leaching could lead to long-term exposure to low levels of the toxic element. THE senses of passing motorists are being aroused in the USA by a new billboard which promotes a North Carolina steakhouse. The advertisement features a gigantic piece of meat on a fork - but to extend the experience ti’s also fitted with a gigantic fan which blows the aroma of beef, black pepper and charcoal across the highway. “It smells like grilled meat with a nice pepper rub on it,” said a spokesman for the company behind the idea, ScentAir. A TWO-YEAR-OLD chain-smoker in Indonesia has managed to cut back to 15 cigarettes a day, after undergoing “therapy focused on playing”. Toddler Ardi Rizal attracted worldwide attention (and condemnation for Indonesian health regulators) when a video showing him puffing away surfaced on YouTube last month. Child welfare workers have stepped in, and as well as the ‘play therapy’ they also said: “The boy likes singing songs so we tell him that if he continues smoking, he won’t be able to be a singer one day, and it works”.

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