ミニストップ 複数ふくすう店舗てんぽで不適切ふてきせつ表示ひょうじ 保健所ほけんじょが立たち入いり検査けんさも

At the convenience store chain Ministop, there have been cases confirmed at 23 stores in seven prefectures where rice balls, bento boxes, and side dishes prepared in-store were first placed on the sales floor, and then their expiration date labels were replaced with ones showing a later date, or labels displaying the expiration date were attached several hours after the items were made.

In response to this, the public health center conducted an on-site inspection on July 1st and confirmed that the owner had placed altered labels over the original ones on rice balls whose expiration dates were approaching and displayed them in the store. It was also confirmed that some employees had engaged in similar actions.

The owner explained, I felt it was a waste to discard them, so I had been layering the labels for about a year and a half or two years. Accordingly, the public health center instructed them to promptly implement measures to prevent a recurrence.

The store explained that since around April last year, inappropriate labeling had been carried out with the aim of reducing food loss, and the public health center instructed them to promptly implement measures to prevent recurrence.

In Kyoto Prefecture, it has been explained to the relevant public health centers that both the Kumiyama-cho Tai Store in Kumiyama Town and the Tanabe Chuo Store in Kyotanabe City have been doing this for several years, and on this basis, on-site inspections are planned to be conducted in the future.

According to the Fukuoka City Health Center, the on-site inspection was conducted at the Fukuoka Hatta 1-chome Store.

On the 19th, after a public health center staff visited the shop and interviewed about the cooking process, it was found that for the rice balls prepared in the store, labels showing the expiration date were attached 1 to 3 hours after cooking.

It has been confirmed that there were no instances of products with displayed expiration dates being relabeled with extended dates after being placed on the sales floor.

According to the Edogawa Public Health Center in Edogawa Ward, last week, they received a notification from the headquarters of Ministop stating that there was an error in the expiration date displayed on their products.

In response to this, the public health center plans to conduct an on-site inspection at the Kasai Truck Terminal Store within the ward sometime this week.

They said they will check how the products were prepared in the store and review the manufacturing process before considering how to respond in the future.

Ministop sincerely apologizes for the great inconvenience caused to our customers.

We will continue to provide safer and more reliable products together with our franchise stores and headquarters, they commented.