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Food companies take the bitter with the butter made in Germany

The metal piece mixes with butter, and a serious ripple extends to the food industry


By JCPRESS

Milk production manufacturer YOTSUBA Inc., Processed food manufacturer Hagoromofoods Co.,Ltd,(TSE:2831- web ) and Confectionery manufacture enterprise Chateraise Co., Ltd. voluntarily recall food that uses the pollution butter.

A negligent system of the quality control of each company is clarified due to the accident in which the consumers cuts in the mouth.

The YOTSUBA Inc. announced on April 8 that the metal piece of the filter used by the manufacturing process mixed with a part of "Unsalted butter 25kg" (Expiration February 20, 2005) that German "Nordmilch Co." had manufactured in the Hohenwestedt factory.

The butter is sold to the number of domestic food manufacturers company as raw materials such as cookies and the cone potages.