The Agriculture Ministry will question Nippon Meat Packers
president Hiroji Okoso today about a subsidiary's suspected
defrauding of a state-run beef buyback programme.
In Japan, Nippon Meat Packers, hit by a beef-labelling fraud
scandal, will cut production of ham, sausage and other processed
foods by 40 per cent for August, the major dailies Mainichi and
Asahi Shimbun reported.
Did Nippon Meat Packers, Japan's biggest meat processing company,
incinerate beef that might have linked the company to a plot to
collect undeserved subsidies under a government beef-buyback
programme? The question is on the...
