Snow Brand Food admits to more beef-labeling fraud

Snow Brand Food admits to more beef-labeling fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Snow Brand Food Co. officials bow at a news conference at the company's head office in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Jan. 28. The company, already hit by a scandal for falsely labeling meat to claim government subsidies in connection with mad cow disease, admitted that two of its employees intentionally mislabeled beef from Hokkaido to pass it off as Kumamoto Prefecture beef.

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