Say it isn’t so!
A news report from Japan surfaced about a serious food crisis that began earlier this week, culminating in a shocker yesterday.
Yesterday (in Japan time, it’d be earlier “today”), Nissin Food Products issued a 500,000 unit recall of its Cup Noodles product, that iconic just-add-water instant food staple of the poor, beleaguered, tired working masses worldwide, after it was reported that traces of a bug repellent ingredient (paradichlorobenzene) was found in a Tokyo suburbanite’s Cup Noodles.
The woman was reported to have felt sick and vomited, with numbness on her tongue; after investigating, the local health office reported finding the contaminant in the culprit Cup Noodles. In response, Nissin issued the recall for the 500,000 units that had been created on the factory line on the same day as the bad noodles, but unfortunately, the majority of them had already been purchased by the folks in the Tokyo area, where those Cup Noodles had been distributed.
