Factory worker sentenced to 3.5 yrs for food poisoning

Factory worker sentenced to 3.5 yrs for food poisoning

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Toshiki Abe, 49, who was sentenced on Aug. 8, 2014 to three and a half years in prison for lacing frozen food products with pesticide at a factory of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc. in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, last fall. (Kyodo)

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