Snow Brand's Nagoya factory resumes milk production

Snow Brand's Nagoya factory resumes milk production

NAGOYA, Japan - Bottles of milk produced at a Snow Brand Milk Products Co. plant in Nagoya are seen ready for shipment as the plant resumed milk production July 27. The plant was the first to do so among the company's 20 plants across Japan following a 15-day suspension in the wake of a food-poisoning outbreak that made more than 14,700 people ill, mainly in western Japan, since late June.

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