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A customer at a McDonald's restaurant in the US is demanding to know how a fried chicken's head found its way into her box of chicken wings.

Katherine Ortega, of Newport News, Virginia, says if she had not been looking closely she could have easily bitten into the head. The beak, cone and some feathers were still visible.

The mother wants to know how the head could have made it past inspectors and into the hands of a customer.

"I usually look at my food but I shouldn't have to look that closely to see that. My five-year-old probably wouldn't have looked. He probably would have thought it was a chicken leg and eaten it," she said.

Ms Ortega says she refused an offer from the manager at the restaurant for more chicken and the return of the chicken's head to the distribution company.

Officials from the health department who inspected the rest of the bag of chicken wings did not find anything unusual, reports 13 News. The incident was reported to the Department of Agriculture.

McDonald's says it will look into the alleged incident, stating that food safety is its top priority.