CHRIS THOMSON

The golden arches’ reputation for consistently edible food is under siege with revelations of a seventh health offence – this time at the Wanneroo McDonald’s.

A conviction notice published this week by the Department of Health confirms the McDonald’s on Wanneroo Road sold unsuitable food on May 1 last year.

For that offence, McDonald’s Australia was fined $8000 and ordered to pay $1654.45 in court costs.

This latest case – brought to court by the City of Wanneroo – is the fast food chain’s seventh known health conviction in five years.

Four of the convictions have come in the past six months.

News of the latest conviction comes hot on the heels of Rockingham McDonald’s being convicted and fined $17,500 earlier this month.

In November last year the City of Rockingham had claimed another legal victory against McDonald’s Australia. At that time, the chain’s Warnbro outlet was fined $22,500 after standing accused of serving a raw chicken wrap.

In July 2009, Rockingham council achieved yet another conviction – when the Warnbro McDonald’s was fined $9000 for failing to maintain its premises and equipment in a clean and sanitary condition, among other indiscretions.

In June last year, McDonald’s Australia was fined $20,000 after pleading guilty to supplying undercooked chicken nuggets from its Midland outlet.

That eatery is also a double offender – having been fined $500 for a breach of health laws in February 2008.

Those convictions followed a $1250 health fine slapped on the Landsdale McDonald’s in September 2007.