McDonald's Japan says plastic in McNugget not linked to Thai plant
TOKYO (Reuters) -- The operator of McDonald's in Japan and Cargill Inc have not discovered any link between a Cargill-owned plant in Thailand and a strip of plastic found in a chicken nugget this month that sparked uproar over product safety at the fast-f
McDonald’s Holdings Co (Japan) and Cargill said in separate statements Wednesday that an investigation showed the type of plastic found in the McNugget on January 3 by a customer in Misawa, northern Japan, was not used at the plant in Saraburi, where the food was produced.
“We are very confident that the plastic film in the nugget occurred outside our production plant,” Chuck Warta, president of Cargill Meats Thailand, said in the statement.
