Japan eyes expanding food labeling to restore consumer confidence

Japan eyes expanding food labeling to restore consumer confidence

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuhiro Machida, chief of the agriculture ministry's consumer safety bureau, address the inaugural meeting of a panel designed to consider an expansion of the food labeling system and other measures to restore consumer confidence at his ministry on July 10. The panel was launched following a recent false-labeling scandal involving a meat processor.

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