(TOKYO) — Loaves of bread have been taken off retailer cabinets in Japan after the stays of “a small animal” believed to be a rat have been discovered.
Manufacturing of the bread was halted at a Tokyo manufacturing facility, with 104,000 packages being recalled, in line with Pasco Shikishima Corp.
The corporate apologized and promised compensation.
“We are going to do our utmost to strengthen our quality control in order that this may by no means occur once more. We ask on your understanding and your cooperation,” it mentioned in an announcement this week.
Japanese media reviews mentioned not less than two individuals who purchased the bread in Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, complained to the corporate about discovering a rodent within the bread.
The bread had been bought in varied areas, together with Ibaraki, Niigata, Kanagawa, Fukushima, Aomori and Tokyo, in line with Pasco.
The corporate, based mostly in Nagoya metropolis, central Japan, additionally makes rolls, bagels and muffins.
Japan boasts comparatively excessive meals security requirements. However the nation has been rocked by meals woes not too long ago, together with 1,000 schoolchildren sickened by milk and two individuals who acquired sick after consuming steak at a restaurant, each earlier this month.
Widespread meals poisoning from a well being complement product broke out in March and killed 5 individuals.
