McDonald’s Japan Reports More Past Incidents of Objects in Food

McDonald’s Corp.’s Japanese affiliate reported past incidents in which customers complained there were pieces of metal and plastic in food, a day after the chain said a human tooth was discovered in its fries.

A McDonald’s customer in Kyoto prefecture found a piece of metal in a pancake in November, and the company sent the metal to a third party for analysis, Kokoro Toyama, a spokeswoman for McDonald’s Holdings Co. Japan, said by phone today. A customer in Okinawa also reported finding a piece of plastic in a muffin in September, she said. The company investigated both incidents without determining where the objects came from, she said.