15 January 2015 (08:30 UTC-07 Tango)/24 Rab al’Awwal 1436/25 Dey 1393/25 Yi-Chou 4712

Administrators of McDonald’s Japan have apologized for unexplained food contamination (beginning back in 2014 and still ongoing), the latest involves insects and metal found in combo meal burgers and french fries (deep fried potato batons).

Administrators shutdown a McDonald’s Cargill food supplier in Thailand, but after an investigation they say it is not the likely source of food contaminations.  McDonald’s started using the Thai based U.S. Cargill owned supplier just six months ago, because their Chinese supplier was caught packaging (supposedly by lazy/uninformed employees) expired processed meat.  (video also showed employees dropping unpackaged meat on the floor before packaging it)

To make things worse, a strike by dock workers on the U.S. west coast has halted U.S. potato shipments to McDonald’s Japan.  Japanese administrators are now looking to South American companies to provide their food.

By November 2014 sales for McDonald’s Japan crashed for the tenth straight month.  McDonald’s Japan is 49.9% controlled by Illinois, U.S.A., based McDonald’s Corporation.  In December 2014, the U.S. McDonald’s posted their worst monthly sales report from the past ten years.

Recent cases:

Reports of napkin pieces being found in juice purchased at McDonald’s.

Fukushima; in January 2015 a man got a McCheeseburger that was filled with 5mm long metal chips.  In December 2014 a child cut their mouth after biting a piece of plastic that was in their McDonald’s sundae.

Tokyo; last weekend a piece of vinyl found inside a chicken McNugget.

Misawa; a piece of vinyl found inside a chicken McNugget.

Osaka; in August 2014 a human tooth found inside a french fry!

McDonald’s & Jell-O going down?

McDonald’s, Subway & Starbucks struggle in Japan