Former president of JAPANESE meatpacker indicted for false labeling - (Meatingplace.com)
November 15, 2007 – 7:19 pmAdmitting that he falsely labeled meat products “to make profits,” the former president of Japanese meatpacker Meat Hope Co. was indicted earlier this week.
Minoru Tanaka was indicted on charges of fraud and breach of the unfair competition law. He shipped and sold minced meat containing pork and chicken that was labeled “100 percent beef.”
However, prosecutors plan not to indict three other Meat Hope executives who were arrested last month with Tanaka. (See Japanese businessmen arrested for falsely labeling minced meat on Meatingplace.com, Oct. 24, 2007.) The three were released on grounds that they were in subordinate positions in the case.
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