Food Safety in Japan

The boss of the MacDonalds franchise chains said that the salads were going to be thrown away (which was a waste) so they changed the labels to make the products look fresh and were able to sell the stale salads to customers.

This is not the only type of tampering that goes on with food products labels in Japan. In an effort to reduce costs, scrap meat has been labeled as beef, vegetables from China have been labeled as domestic etc etc.
Does tampering of food product labels happen in your region?

BTW, the pictures in this article are of the freebies that come with the kids meal - this time round its PuriCure goodies for the girls and Blue Dragon for the lads.