Mannan Life decides to stop production of jelly jelly with "konjac", production resumption to be determined

Mainichi Newspaper coverage on 8th OctoberAccording to a boy who ate jelly with jelly with juice on September 20 received an accident that caused the throat to clog jelly and got konnyaku jelly "Manufacturer of Konnyaku"Mannan lifeIt is said that he decided to stop production of the field.

We are not aware of the restart of production.

Details are as below.
Konnyaku Jelly: Mannan Life ceases production - Everyday jp (Mainichi Newspaper)

According to the Mainichi Shimbun, Mannan Life has informed the wholesale company of the discontinuation of eight types of "蒟蒻 fields", 6 types of 蒟蒻 ield fields "lights," 3 river fields convenience store "products. As a result, the sales of the "蒟蒻 ield" will be finally sold for the shipment on the 8 th, and it seems that the timing of production resumption is undecided. For reasons of discontinuation, Mannan Life's quality assurance office explained that "We can not respond to the improvement measures requested by the administration, such as increasing the warning mark."

The accident was that when a boy aged 1 year and 9 months felt "蒟蒻 ield" that he frozen, he died two months after being clogged in a throat and transported to a hospital.MSN Sankei News on October 3rdAccording to the report received by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from the National Confectionery Industry Association, the National Konjac Cooperative Federation, etc. on October 3, "Konnyaku jelly keeps on sale, not collecting goods" , Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has been forced to leave it to self-regulation of the industry because it does not have mandatory authority.

Mannan life will be on September 30Apology and prevention of recurrenceI announced the sentence,Kyodo news report on October 7He said that he was not reporting the accident to a group by breaking the agreement of an industry organization and decided to discontinue the production of arrows that questioned responses in terms of safety measures.