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Seals on Japanese food packaging

By Hassouni
November 9, 2011 in Japan: Cooking & Baking

https://forums.egullet.org/topic/140942-seals-on-japanese-food-packaging/

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Hassouni

Posted November 9, 2011

So today I found these at my local Super H Mart

Seeing just three ingredients, I bought the jar, being sick of umeboshi with all sorts of other preservatives and crap.

When I took it home, the package was unsealed. Not a broken seal, but no seal at all. That white top pops right off, and the cellophane is not attached in any way; it simply floats off.

Is this normal for Japanese goods? Everything else I've bought imported from Japan, foodwise and otherwise, has been immaculately packaged and sealed.

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