Snow Brand Milk Products to close Osaka plant Jan. 31

OSAKA, Japan - Hideki Takenouchi (R), president of the Osaka branch of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., on Dec. 22 hands over to Hideo Nakazawa, head of the Osaka municipal health office, a notice of closure of the company's plant in Osaka's Miyakojima Ward on Jan. 31. Japan's biggest dairy product maker caused a widespread food-poisoning outbreak in June and July with contaminated low-fat milk and yogurt manufactured there.

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