McDonald's Restaurants (Hong Kong) Ltd. was found guilty Monday of selling ice cream containing E.coli bacteria 630 times above HK's safety standards. The giant fast food chain's branch in Guangzhou announced on Wednesday (Mar 28) that the ice cream being sold here complies with the local food safety standard.

According to HK media TVB's report, McDonald's Restaurants (Hong Kong) Ltd. was fined HK$4,000 and had to pay an extra HK$430 for laboratory tests.

The laboratory test results showed a level of E.coli bacteria at 63,000 units per gram of the restaurant's ice cream sample, 630 times higher than the maximum standard of 100 units per gram set by the government, TVB reported.

There are 70 McDonald's in Guangzhou, selling two kinds of ice cream products, ice cream cone and sunday. A reporter with local newspaper Information Times interviewed an employee in one of the McDonald's restaurant in Cigang, south Guangzhou, finding that no sanitation officials from the government has inspected their restaurant in the past year.

Some customers said the incident was an individual case and would not affect their choice of food in the restaurant, while some expressed that they would avoid eating ice cream of the restaurant after knowing the news.

Editor: Yan