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McDonald’s outlets used expired ingredients, falsified labels for 6 years

The four Tokyo McDonald’s outlets that were acknowledged to have sold salads with false production labels on Tuesday also used products beyond their expiry dates, McDonald’s Japan announced on Thursday. It was also revealed the the fabrication date falsification had been going on since six years back on a nearly daily basis, Japanese media reports.

A McDonald’s in-house probe at the outlets revealed they had used sliced tomatoes and “McShake” milkshake ingredients, as well as yoghurt and eggs which were past their expiry dates. Staff has also admitted they instructed their subordinates to replace labels showing the actual production dates and hours with false ones, a Kyodo News report quoted Eiko Harada, president of McDonald’s Japan.

The fabrication came to light on Tuesday when Harada revealed that the four outlets operated by franchisee Athlete had sold salads with falsified fabrication dates.

“We are forced to admit there has been a long-lasting problem of poor management (at the Athlete outlets),” Harada told reporters.

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One response to “McDonald’s outlets used expired ingredients, falsified labels for 6 years”

  1. Japan Aktuell – Dez/1 – KW48 | Life in Japan, Dec 09 at 11:45 pm :
  2. […] Update zu KW44: Lebensmittelskanal und das goldene M der Zivilisation Diesmal haben MacDonald’s Mitarbeiter und Verantwortliche zugegeben, Lebensmittel auch nach dem Verfallsdatum zu verwenden. Zutaten für Milchshakes, Eier und der gleichen mehr wurden lustig weiter zu Lebensmitteln verarbeitet. Salate bekamen nach der Ablaufzeit von 12 Stunden schlicht ein neues Label statt weggeschmissen zu werden. Skandal. Gut, alles ganz schrecklich, aber mal ehrlich: Sollen Lebensmittel in der Tonne landen, weil ein fiktives Durchschnittsdatum verstrichen ist?! Ich weiß, für die zivilisationsgestörten Stadtkinders ist es unvorstellbar, aber nen Ei, was am 5.12. “abgelaufen is” aber nicht stinkt, ist auch noch am 6.12. gut. Ja, wirklich. Wenn man auf’m Land sich die Eier vom Federviech im Stall selbst holt, dann haben die da kein Datum raufgepickt und man muss sich selbst nen Reim drauf machen. Klar, Gammelfleisch und Co. möchte ich nicht auf dem Teller haben - aber 13 Stunden alten Salat? Ich bitte euch. Quelle: Japan News Review […]

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