SANTIAGO, Chile – A new law in Chile aims to take some of the fun out of fast-food by forcing McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC and other restaurants to stop including toys and other goodies with children’s meals.

The companies are still using toys to draw in Chile’s increasingly chubby children more than a month after the ban took effect on June 7, Senator Giudo Girardi said as he filed a formal complaint Wednesday with the health ministry.

“These businesses know that this food damages the health of children and they know that the law is in effect. They’re using fraudulent and abusive means,” Girardi said.

The complaint also targets makers of cereal, popsicles and other products that attract children with toys, crayons or stickers, as well as markets that sell the food.

If Chile’s health ministry upholds his allegations, the companies could be forced to remove the goodies or face nominal fines.

The Associated Press left messages seeking reaction with spokesmen for McDonald’s, Burger King Worldwide and KFC’s owner, Yum Brands.

Girardi said he wrote the law because nearly a quarter of Chile’s six-year-olds now suffer from childhood obesity — and that its passage came despite seven years of industry lobbying.

“These corporations threatened that if the law was approved there would be no more money for children’s foundations, the sick, or athletes, but we were finally able to create a great alliance between the civil society and scientists to defeat these lobbyists,” the senator said.

McDonald’s Happy Meals — marketed as “Cajitas Felices” in Spanish — have been a major draw for four-year-old Florencia Moraga, who was playing with her Ice Age movie toys Wednesday night with her father Ricardo at a restaurant in downtown Santiago.

“I loooove McDonald’s because of the toys in the Happy Meal!” Florencia said.

Moraga said he takes his daughter every two weeks to the fast-food chain, but would not come back if she becomes overweight.

“She’s healthy, skinny, but a kid with obesity was just sitting next to us. If I were his father I wouldn’t bring him here,” he said.

The Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest sued McDonalds over using toys to market its food to children in 2010, but the claim was dismissed in April. San Francisco banned restaurants last year from providing toys along with meals high in fat, salt, and sugar, but McDonalds has continued providing toys there by charging consumers a small fee for the goodies.