BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Charoen Pokphand Foods PCL (CPF (>> Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Co. Ltd.), Thailand's largest meat and animal feed producer, said on Wednesday its customers placed orders as normal and the company was unaffected by food safety concerns related to McDonald's Japan (>> McDonald's Holdings Co (Japan) Ltd).

CPF, Thailand's largest chicken exporter, is not a supplier to McDonald's Japan and the company's products, production lines and supply chain are in line with international standards, its senior vice president, Prasit Chalongchaicharn, told Reuters.

McDonald's Japan apologized to customers on Wednesday after plastic was found in a Chicken McNugget at the weekend.

Shares of CPF fell nearly 1 percent in afternoon trade, underperforming a gain of 0.73 percent in the benchmark index <.SETI>, hit by concerns about the impact of food safety worries in Japan, one of its main markets.

(Reporting by Khettiya Jittapong; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)