Probe of Snow Brand Food expands to beef stored in Tokyo

Probe of Snow Brand Food expands to beef stored in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo metropolitan government inspectors enter Snow Brand Food Co.'s Tokyo headquarters Jan. 24 to check if beef the company has stored in the capital is actually domestic. It was revealed the previous day that the firm had passed off foreign beef as domestic to get government subsidies designed to compensate under a domestic beef buyback scheme to cope with the mad cow disease scare.

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