Food safety risks, including ingredient labeling and traceability
First written in FY2016. 2 of 5 entries say "Mitigated", first in FY2017. Latest entry: FY2023.
The whole theme swung hardest in 2025: 3 of 15 companies on the "Worse" side.
38 other companies' latest entry also says "Restated".
- FY2023RestatedAnnual report
「To ensure food-ingredient safety, the Group has established food traceability in cooperation with its business partners. In addition, it ensures food safety and strives to provide customers with accurate information by conducting on-site inspections of production areas and processing plants and selecting ingredients that comply with standards for additives and microbiological testing.」
The continued response through traceability, checks of production areas and processing plants, compliance with testing standards and the provision of accurate information is noted. - FY2020MitigatedAnnual report
「To ensure food-ingredient safety, the Company has established food traceability in cooperation with its business partners. In addition, it ensures food safety and strives to provide customers with accurate information by conducting on-site inspections of production areas and processing plants and selecting ingredients that comply with standards for additives and microbiological testing.」
The Company's response to food safety risks is specified through traceability, on-site inspections of processing plants, compliance with testing standards and the provision of information. - FY2018RestatedAnnual report
「The Company ensures food-ingredient safety by working closely with business partners and rigorously enforcing requirements relating to origin, processing plants and process controls, additives and microbiological testing standards, but」
The continued use of rigorous controls over origin, processing processes, additives and microbiological testing standards to ensure food safety is noted. - FY2017MitigatedAnnual report
「The Company ensures food-ingredient safety by working closely with business partners and rigorously enforcing requirements relating to origin, processing plants and process controls, additives and microbiological testing standards, but」
In relation to food safety risks, including ingredient labeling and traceability, rigorous controls over origin, processing processes, additives and microbiological testing standards are explicitly identified. - FY2016First statedAnnual report
「If food-ingredient safety cannot be ensured, it will be necessary to review and diversify suppliers, review the key ingredients in menus, establish traceability including origin labeling, and reduce customer concerns.」
The possibility of reputational damage and lower sales if food-ingredient safety cannot be ensured is noted.