Papers on 9 Snow Brand execs sent to prosecutors

Papers on 9 Snow Brand execs sent to prosecutors

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Snow Brand Milk Products Co.'s plant in Taiki, Hokkaido. The plant former head Osamu Kubota is one of the nine company officials sent to prosecutors on March 16 on suspicion of professional negligence in the massive outbreak of food poisoning that hit western Japan last summer. Others include former Snow Brand President Tetsuro Ishikawa and former Senior Managing Director Hiroshi Soma. The powdered skim milk produced in Taiki was an ingredient in tainted dairy products such as low-fat milk and yogurt drinks made at Snow Brand's Osaka plant that led to widespread food poisoning in June and July last year.

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