Japan Police Query Workers in Tainted Food Investigation
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Police in Japan are questioning about 300 employees of a packaged-food maker whose products sickened hundreds of people after pesticide at 2.6 million times the permitted levels were found in frozen croquettes.
Police are probing the factory and workers for evidence in the contamination of food made at Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc.’s plant in eastern Japan, according to a Gunma prefecture police statement yesterday.