For delaying its promise to cut trans fat from the oil used to cook its French fries in 2002, McDonald’s will pay $8.5 million in damages. The suit was filed by consumer advocacy group bantransfat which claim McDonald’s failed to inform customers trans fat was still being used five months after it claimed it had ceased its use. Seven million of that sum will go to the American Heart Association to be used in educational campaigns. Also, McDonalds’s was instructed to spend $1.5 million on an ad campaign admitting its fault.
