Japanese overreaction on things
Confectioner Ishiya to recall all products : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)http://www.yomiur…Major confectionary firm Ishiya Trading Co. announced Thursday it would recall all its products from stores over scandals revealed Tuesday regarding false sell-by dates found on its popular chocolate product Shiroi Koibito and the discovery of bacter…Another good example of overreaction by Japanese people. It has turned out that Ishiya Trading Co. has been “extending” their chocolate expiration from 4 month, which is defined by “their internal company regulation” to 6 months occasionally.
Consumers now call it deception and most shops immediately removed their products at least until “they confirm the safety of their products.” Yesterday it turned out that they’ve been doing this type of “deception” for 11 years, which they call a scandal.
So what? They flexibly update the expiration from 4 months to 6 months based on their modified regulation, due to their SKU and updated quality to protect their products from being rotten. Are there any victim, like poisoned by their product in this 11 years? If they’ve been doing it for that long period of time and no one has been hurt, I’d say that’s a good thing.
These days most news from Japan leave me the feeling of demanding too much political correctness on famous people or overreaction on the quality of products like this. Makes me sick.
btw I mistakenly (or semi-intentionally to demonstrate the ad-ness) picked the “AD” image from the linked page, which makes the link enclosure look like an actual ad much more than it usual does.