‘Maruta no Oyatsu’
Allergy-safe ‘oyatsu’ (snack)
- No flavourings and colourings are used in the product.
- All allergenic ingredients used (28 allergenic substances which must be shown on the product under Japanese law, plus rice and potatoes, total of 30 allergenic substances) are all indicated on the product in the ingredient section.
- For all highly processed or complex raw materials, they are checked for its origin materials, carried-over food additives and processing aids.
- Ingredients are mainly domestic.
- No food additives are used except those required for production.
- We check the quality of each production lot.
Contamination prevention
| Investigation | Information on allergenic substances (total of 30 items, consisting of 28 items subject to allergy labelling with rice and potatoes) in other products handled in the same production process as MS series products are verified. |
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| Production | All production lines are cleaned the day before of the production and manufactured first the next day. |
| Inspection | Of the eight specified raw materials (egg, milk, wheat, buckwheat, peanut, shrimp, crab and walnut), those used in the same production process as ‘MS products’ are sampled and inspected for each production lot. |
Radioactive substances prevention
| Investigation | The origin of raw materials are verified. |
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| Examination | Radioactive material testing is carried out for radioactive iodine-131, radioactive caesium-134 and radioactive caesium-137 using germanium semiconductor detectors. |
Information about food allergy
※From “Guidance to food labelling of processed food containing allergen” Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Japanese Consumer Affairs Agency)
What is food allergy?
When food is ingested, the body recognises the protein contained in the food as a foreign substance, causing a hypersensitive reaction in order to defend itself. This reaction varies from each person in terms of the substance and the amount that causes reaction. The reaction can also vary depending on the physical condition of the time or day.
Allergen labelling
There are 28 items subject to allergy labelling, and labelling is required by law for eight items (specified raw materials) that are particularly serious or for which the number of cases are particularly high. The 20 items (equivalent to specified raw materials) for which the number of cases are small or, even if large, the number of serious cases are small and scientific knowledge is not necessarily sufficient at the present are recommended to be labelled by notification from the Japanese government.
What is compound ingredients?
A compound ingredient is an ingredient which itself contains two or more raw materials. (E.g. ‘Soy sauce’ is produced with soybean, wheat, salt and etc., therefore ‘soy sauce’ is a compound ingredient.)
