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TOKYO, Japan, Feb. 19 Kyodo - Photo taken on July 7, 2022, in Tokyo shows Anisakis larvae taken from host Alaska pollock.

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CHINA-ORIENTAL WHITE STORKS-RELEASE INTO WILD (CN)

(240109) -- SHANGRAO, Jan. 9, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Staff members release oriental white storks and other birds into the wild at Poyang Lake Wetland Park in Poyang County of Shangrao City, east China's Jiangxi Province, Jan. 8, 2024. Three oriental white storks were stranded in Shenyang during their migration due to injuries and food poisoning November, 2023. They were later rescued and sent for treatment at Shenyang Raptor Rescue Center. The three birds, when cured, were not released immediately into the wild in Shenyang due to the cold weather there. They were instead transferred to east China's Jiangxi and released at Poyang Lake Wetland Park, one of their natural habitats. The oriental white stork, a migratory bird under first-class state protection, has been listed as "endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. (Photo by Zhuo Zhongwei/Xinhua)

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CHINA-ORIENTAL WHITE STORKS-RELEASE INTO WILD (CN)

(240109) -- SHENYANG, Jan. 9, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Staff members check the condition of an oriental white stork at Shenyang Raptor Rescue Center in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Jan. 5, 2024. Three oriental white storks were stranded in Shenyang during their migration due to injuries and food poisoning November, 2023. They were later rescued and sent for treatment at Shenyang Raptor Rescue Center. The three birds, when cured, were not released immediately into the wild in Shenyang due to the cold weather there. They were instead transferred to east China's Jiangxi and released at Poyang Lake Wetland Park, one of their natural habitats. The oriental white stork, a migratory bird under first-class state protection, has been listed as "endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

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CHINA-ORIENTAL WHITE STORKS-RELEASE INTO WILD (CN)

(240109) -- SHENYANG, Jan. 9, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A staff member prepares to put a GPS tracker on an oriental white stork at Shenyang Raptor Rescue Center in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Jan. 5, 2024. Three oriental white storks were stranded in Shenyang during their migration due to injuries and food poisoning November, 2023. They were later rescued and sent for treatment at Shenyang Raptor Rescue Center. The three birds, when cured, were not released immediately into the wild in Shenyang due to the cold weather there. They were instead transferred to east China's Jiangxi and released at Poyang Lake Wetland Park, one of their natural habitats. The oriental white stork, a migratory bird under first-class state protection, has been listed as "endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

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CHINA-ORIENTAL WHITE STORKS-RELEASE INTO WILD (CN)

(240109) -- SHENYANG, Jan. 9, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Wang Weiyan (L), head of Shenyang Raptor Rescue Center, prepares to transfer oriental white storks at the Taoxian International Airport in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Jan. 6, 2024. Three oriental white storks were stranded in Shenyang during their migration due to injuries and food poisoning November, 2023. They were later rescued and sent for treatment at Shenyang Raptor Rescue Center. The three birds, when cured, were not released immediately into the wild in Shenyang due to the cold weather there. They were instead transferred to east China's Jiangxi and released at Poyang Lake Wetland Park, one of their natural habitats. The oriental white stork, a migratory bird under first-class state protection, has been listed as "endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

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CHINA-ORIENTAL WHITE STORKS-RELEASE INTO WILD (CN)

(240109) -- SHANGRAO, Jan. 9, 2024 (Xinhua) -- An oriental white stork prepares to take off at Poyang Lake Wetland Park in Poyang County of Shangrao City, east China's Jiangxi Province, Jan. 8, 2024. Three oriental white storks were stranded in Shenyang during their migration due to injuries and food poisoning November, 2023. They were later rescued and sent for treatment at Shenyang Raptor Rescue Center. The three birds, when cured, were not released immediately into the wild in Shenyang due to the cold weather there. They were instead transferred to east China's Jiangxi and released at Poyang Lake Wetland Park, one of their natural habitats. The oriental white stork, a migratory bird under first-class state protection, has been listed as "endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. (Photo by Zhuo Zhongwei/Xinhua)

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CHINA-ORIENTAL WHITE STORKS-RELEASE INTO WILD (CN)

(240109) -- SHENYANG, Jan. 9, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Wang Weiyan, head of Shenyang Raptor Rescue Center, checks the condition of an oriental white stork in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Jan. 5, 2024. Three oriental white storks were stranded in Shenyang during their migration due to injuries and food poisoning November, 2023. They were later rescued and sent for treatment at Shenyang Raptor Rescue Center. The three birds, when cured, were not released immediately into the wild in Shenyang due to the cold weather there. They were instead transferred to east China's Jiangxi and released at Poyang Lake Wetland Park, one of their natural habitats. The oriental white stork, a migratory bird under first-class state protection, has been listed as "endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

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CHINA-ORIENTAL WHITE STORKS-RELEASE INTO WILD (CN)

(240109) -- SHANGRAO, Jan. 9, 2024 (Xinhua) -- An oriental white stork flies at Poyang Lake Wetland Park in Poyang County of Shangrao City, east China's Jiangxi Province, Jan. 8, 2024. Three oriental white storks were stranded in Shenyang during their migration due to injuries and food poisoning November, 2023. They were later rescued and sent for treatment at Shenyang Raptor Rescue Center. The three birds, when cured, were not released immediately into the wild in Shenyang due to the cold weather there. They were instead transferred to east China's Jiangxi and released at Poyang Lake Wetland Park, one of their natural habitats. The oriental white stork, a migratory bird under first-class state protection, has been listed as "endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. (Photo by Zhuo Zhongwei/Xinhua)

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CHINA-ORIENTAL WHITE STORKS-RELEASE INTO WILD (CN)

(240109) -- SHENYANG, Jan. 9, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A staff member measures the beak length of an oriental white stork at Shenyang Raptor Rescue Center in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Jan. 5, 2024. Three oriental white storks were stranded in Shenyang during their migration due to injuries and food poisoning November, 2023. They were later rescued and sent for treatment at Shenyang Raptor Rescue Center. The three birds, when cured, were not released immediately into the wild in Shenyang due to the cold weather there. They were instead transferred to east China's Jiangxi and released at Poyang Lake Wetland Park, one of their natural habitats. The oriental white stork, a migratory bird under first-class state protection, has been listed as "endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

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CHINA-ORIENTAL WHITE STORKS-RELEASE INTO WILD (CN)

(240109) -- SHANGRAO, Jan. 9, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Staff members release oriental white storks and other birds into the wild at Poyang Lake Wetland Park in Poyang County of Shangrao City, east China's Jiangxi Province, Jan. 8, 2024. Three oriental white storks were stranded in Shenyang during their migration due to injuries and food poisoning November, 2023. They were later rescued and sent for treatment at Shenyang Raptor Rescue Center. The three birds, when cured, were not released immediately into the wild in Shenyang due to the cold weather there. They were instead transferred to east China's Jiangxi and released at Poyang Lake Wetland Park, one of their natural habitats. The oriental white stork, a migratory bird under first-class state protection, has been listed as "endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. (Photo by Zhuo Zhongwei/Xinhua)

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Maruha Nichiro apologizes to shareholders

TOKYO, Japan - Toshio Kushiro (C), president of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc., and other company executives bow in apology at the company's extraordinary general shareholders meeting in Tokyo on Jan. 30, 2014, for a food poisoning case involving one of its subsidiaries in which a factory worker has been arrested on suspicion of lacing frozen food products with pesticide. (Photograph taken from monitor screen)

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JT, Nissin scrap frozen food business integration plan

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Kimura, president of Japan Tobacco Inc., announces at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 6 that JT and Nissin Food Products Co. have agreed to scrap a plan to integrate their frozen food businesses due to repercussions from the recent food-poisoning outbreak involving Chinese-made frozen dumplings.

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Japan, China to continue cooperation in food poisoning case

TOKYO, Japan - Li Chunfeng (C), head of a Chinese fact-finding mission to Japan, and Shigeru Hotta (L), a senior official in Japan's Cabinet Office, attend a joint news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 6 after their talks over recent food-poisoning incidents in Japan involving Chinese-made frozen dumplings.

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Japan's team finds no problems at factory in food poisoning case

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Taiji Harashima, head of the Japanese Cabinet Office's Consumer Policy Division, speaks to reporters at a hotel in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, on Feb. 6 after talks with Chinese officials. Harashima, head of a Japanese government team, said his group found no problems at a Tianyang Food factory, where frozen meat dumplings linked to food-posioning cases in Japan were produced.

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JT, Nissin scrap frozen food business integration plan

TOKYO, Japan - Koki Ando, president of Nissin Food Products Co., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 6 about the scrapping of a plan to integrate the company's frozen food business with that of Japan Tobacco Inc. due to repercussions from the recent food-poisoning outbreak involving Chinese-made frozen dumplings.

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Japan fact-finding team visits Hebei over food poisoning

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - A Japanese government team led by Taiji Harashima (L), head of the Cabinet Office's Consumer Policy Division, visits Tianyang Food in China's Hebei Province on Feb. 5 to inspect its plant over food-poisoning incidents in Japan involving its frozen meat dumplings. Harashima is met by the plant chief (4th from L).

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Japan fact-finding team visits Hebei over food poisoning

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - A Japanese government fact-finding team (R side), led by Taiji Harashima, head of the Cabinet Office's Consumer Policy Division, meet with officials of the Hebei Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau in China's Hebei Province (L side) on Feb. 5 in Shijiazhuang over food-poisoning cases in Japan involving Chinese-made frozen meat dumplings.

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Chinese inspectors check Tianyang Food over food poisoning

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Chinese inspection officials enter Tianyang Food in Hebei Province on Feb. 4 to check its facilities over food-poisoning incidents in Japan involving frozen meat dumplings made by the company.

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CAP POL#Japan, China hold talks over food-poisoning outbreak

TOKYO, Japan - Li Chunfeng (R), vice director of the Import and Export Food Safety Bureau of China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, enters the Cabinet Office in Tokyo on Feb. 4 for a second day of talks with Japanese officials on the outbreak of food-poisoning triggered by frozen meat dumplings made in China. Pesticide was found in the dumplings.

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Cabinet ministers meet over food poisoning incidents

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Health minister Yoichi Masuzoe, state minister in charge of quality-of-life policy affairs Fumio Kishida, Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura and Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura attend a meeting of Cabinet ministers at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 4 to discuss the recent poisoning incidents involving Chinese-made frozen ''gyoza'' dumplings.

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3Japan team meets Chinese officials over food poisoning

BEIJING, China - Wang Daning (L), director general of the Import and Export Food Safety Bureau at China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, attends a meeting with Japanese officials in Beijing over food-poisoning incidents in Japan involving China-made frozen meat dumplings.

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Japan, China hold talks over food-poisoning outbreak

TOKYO, Japan - Li Chunfeng, vice director of the Import and Export Food Safety Bureau of China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, speaks to reporters on Feb. 3 after a meeting with Japanese officials on the outbreak of food-poisoning triggered by frozen meat dumplings made in China. The dumplings were laced with a pesticide.

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Factory worker arrested over poisoning

OIZUMI, Japan - Photo shows Aqlifoods Co.'s factory in the town of Oizumi, Gunma Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Jan. 26, 2014. A 49-year-old worker at the factory was arrested on Jan. 25 over his alleged involvement in the poisoning of the Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc. subsidiary's food products with pesticide, possibly putting at risk the health of more than 2,800 people across Japan.

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Frozen food poisoning

TOKYO, Japan - Toshio Kushiro (L), president of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc., and Yutaka Tanabe, president of Maruha Nichiro's subsidiary Aqlifoods Co., bow in apology during a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2014. An Aqlifoods factory worker was arrested earlier that day over his alleged involvement in the poisoning of Aqlifoods' food products with pesticide that possibly affected the health of more than 2,800 people across the country.

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Frozen food poisoning

TOKYO, Japan - Toshio Kushiro (far L), president of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc., Yutaka Tanabe (2nd from L), president of Maruha Nichiro's subsidiary Aqlifoods Co., and others bow in apology during a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2014. An Aqlifoods factory worker was arrested earlier that day over his alleged involvement in the poisoning of Aqlifoods' food products with pesticide that possibly affected the health of more than 2,800 people across the country.

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Factory worker arrested over alleged frozen food poisoning

MAEBASHI, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 25, 2014, shows a factory operated by Aqlifoods Co., a subsidiary of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc., in the town of Oizumi, Gunma Prefecture. Police arrested Toshiki Abe, a 49-year-old worker at the factory, the same day on suspicion of poisoning food products four separate times between last Oct. 3 and Oct. 7. More than 2,800 people have reported falling ill in possible connection with the poisoning.

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Chinese man gets life over tainted dumplings

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - A Jan. 19, 2014, photo shows the site where a food plant used to be in Shijiazhuang, the capital of North China's Hebei Province. Lu Yueting, a 39-year-old former temporary worker at the plant was sentenced Jan. 20 by the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court to life in prison after he admitted to poisoning frozen "gyoza" dumplings that made 14 people in Japan and China ill six years ago.

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Chinese man gets life over tainted dumplings

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - A police vehicle believed to be carrying Lu Yueting, a 39-year-old former temporary worker at a food plant, leaves the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court in Shijiazhuang, the capital of North China's Hebei Province, on Jan. 20, 2014. The court sentenced Lu earlier that day to life in prison after he admitted to poisoning frozen "gyoza" dumplings that made 14 people in Japan and China ill six years ago.

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Chinese man gets life over tainted dumplings

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Photo shows the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court in Shijiazhuang, the capital of North China's Hebei Province, on Jan. 20, 2014. The court sentenced later that day Lu Yueting, a 39-year-old former temporary worker at a food plant, to life in prison after he admitted to poisoning frozen "gyoza" dumplings that sickened 10 people in Japan six years ago.

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Tainted dumpling case

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Photo shows a courthouse in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, where the trial of Lu Yueting is being held, on July 30, 2013. The Chinese man is accused of poisoning frozen "gyoza" dumplings that sickened 10 people in Japan five years ago, triggering a scare over the safety of Chinese food products.

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Tainted dumplings case

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Lu Yueting, accused of lacing "gyoza" dumplings with a toxic chemical that led to high-profile food poisoning cases in Japan from 2007 to 2008.

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Japan to ban serving of raw beef liver

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows raw beef liver served at a Tokyo barbecue restaurant in March 2012. The health ministry will ban restaurants from serving raw beef liver, a popular dish in Japan, from July 1, 2012, in the wake of a series of food poisoning incidents caused by raw beef, including fatal cases, a government panel agreed on June 12, 2012.

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Police raid barbecue chain outlet over food poisoning

FUKUI, Japan - Police investigators bring out boxes of confiscated materials from an outlet of the Yakiniku-zakaya Ebisu restaurant chain in Fukui on May 6, 2011, over a fatal food poisoning case following the deaths of four people who ate raw meat dishes at the restaurants.

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Fatal food poisoning at barbecue chain

KANAZAWA, Japan - Yasuhiro Kanzaka, president of Foods Forus Co., the operator of the Yakiniku-zakaya Ebisu chain, bows in apology in front of the company's head office in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on May 5, 2011, over the fatal food poisoning cases. The death toll in a string of food poisoning cases believed to be caused by consuming raw meat at the barbecue restaurant chain rose to four on the day.

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Fatal food poisoning at barbecue chain

TOKYO, Japan - Officials of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry attend a press conference in Tokyo on May 5, 2011, over a string of fatal food poisoning cases believed to be caused by consuming raw meat at a ''yakiniku'' barbecue restaurant chain. The ministry asked prefectural governments to conduct emergency checks on whether restaurants serving raw meat are properly observing sanitation standards.

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Fatal food poisoning at barbecue chain

KANAZAWA, Japan - Yasuhiro Kanzaka (L, front), president of Foods Forus Co., prostrates himself in apology in front of the company's head office in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on May 5, 2011, over fatal food poisoning cases at the company's Yakiniku-zakaya Ebisu chain. The death toll from food poisoning believed to be caused by raw meat served at the ''yakiniku'' barbecue restaurant chain rose to four that day.

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Deadly food poisoning at 'yakiniku' chain

KANAZAWA, Japan - Yasuhiro Kanzaka, president of Foods Forus Co., which operates the Yakiniku-zakaya Ebisu barbecue restaurant chain, speaks during a press conference on May 2, 2011, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, following a string of food poisoning cases that arose among customers of the chain. The death toll from the cases reached three on May 4.

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China advance process to indict man over tainted food case

BEIJING, China - Norikazu Koyama, a councilor for criminal investigation affairs at Japan's National Police Agency, speaks to reporters at a hotel in Beijing on July 14, 2010, after inspecting Tianyang Food's plant in Hebei Province and holding talks with local police over the poisoning case caused by frozen dumplings exported to Japan. Lu Yueting, 36, a former temporary employee at the plant, was arrested on suspicion of lacing the dumplings with pesticide.

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Kan eats radish sprouts

TOKYO, Japan - Naoto Kan, then health minister, eats radish sprouts before reporters to demonstrate the safety of the products at the ministry in Tokyo in August 1996. Kan, who was named prime minister on June 4, 2010, made the demonstration after the ministry blamed radish sprouts as a possible cause of food poisoning.

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Father of suspect in dumpling poisoning

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - The father of Lu Yueting, a suspect in the poisoning of dumplings that sickened a total of 10 people in Japan in 2007 and 2008, wipes away his tears during an interview at his home in the suburbs of Shijiazhuang in Hebei Province, China, on March 28, 2010. He said his son, a former temporary worker at a food factory, was ''a quiet boy.''

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Chinese police detain suspect in tainted dumplings case

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Reporters gather on March 27, 2010, in front of Tianyang Food Plant, the maker of tainted frozen dumplings that were exported to Japan and sickened 10 people in 2008, based in Shijiazhuang in northern China's Hebei Province. Chinese authorities announced on March 26, 2010, that police have arrested a 36-year-old man who was a temporary employee at the plant on suspicion of poisoning the dumplings.

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Chinese police detain suspect in tainted dumplings case

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Reporters gather on March 27, 2010, in front of Tianyang Food Plant, the maker of tainted frozen dumplings that were exported to Japan and sickened 10 people in 2008, based in Shijiazhuang in northern China's Hebei Province. Chinese authorities announced on March 26, 2010, that police have arrested a 36-year-old man who was a temporary employee at the plant on suspicion of poisoning the dumplings.

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Chinese police detain suspect in tainted dumplings case

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Photo taken Jan. 27, 2010, shows Tianyang Food Plant, the maker of frozen dumplings which were later exported to Japan and sickened 10 people in 2008, based in Shijiazhuang in northern China's Hebei Province. Chinese authorities announced on March 26, 2010, that police have arrested a 36-year-old man, who was a temporary employee at the plant, on suspicion of poisoning the dumplings.

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Recalled dumplings delivered to China firm

BEIJING, China - Photo taken Jan. 21 shows a gate of the headquarters of Tangshan Iron and Steel Co. in Tangshan, Hebei Province of China. Some employees showed symptoms of food poisoning after eating dumplings that were delivered to the steel company free of charge. The frozen dumplings, made by Tianyang Food in the province, were recalled after causing food-poisoning cases in Japan last year as the products were chemically tainted.

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Japan, China agree to boost cooperation in food poisoning probe

BEIJING, China - Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura (far R) meets with China's State Councilor Dai Bingguo (far L) at the Zhongnanhai leadership compound in Beijing on Aug. 17. Komura and Dai agreed to strengthen cooperation in probing into food poisoning cases involving pesticide-tainted dumplings made in China, a Japanese official said.

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Japan, China agree to boost cooperation in food poisoning probe

BEIJING, China - Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura (L) and China's State Councilor Dai Bingguo pose for photographers before to talks at the Zhongnanhai leadership compound in Beijing on Aug. 17. Komura and Dai agreed to strengthen cooperation in probing into food poisoning cases involving pesticide-tainted dumplings made in China, a Japanese official said.

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China safety boss raps media coverage of tainted dumplings

BEIJING, China - Li Changjiang, head of China's food safety watchdog, speaks at a press conference in Beijing on March 13. Li accused some sections of the news media of fuelling public anxiety in Japan over a food poisoning outbreak involving Chinese-made ''gyoza'' dumplings.

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Dumpling, gas rows unlikely to delay Hu's trip to Japan: China

BEIJING, China - China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi speaks at a news conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 12. Yang dismissed speculation that Chinese president Hu Jintao's trip to Japan will be delayed because of row over Chinese dumplings that caused a food poisoning outbreak in Japan.

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JT to cut outsourcing of frozen food production to China

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Tobacco Inc. President Hiroshi Kimura tells reporters in Tokyo on March 4 that the company will increase its own production of frozen foods while cutting back on outsourcing to China. Kimura made the remarks in the wake of food poisoning cases in Japan involving dumplings made in China.

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Factory in food poisoning case seen laying off workers

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Workers at the Tianyang Food factory in Shijiazhuang in China's Hebei Province leave the factory carrying large packages on March 3. The factory linked to food poisoning cases in Japan distributed resignation applications to a large number of workers the same day, roughly a month after production was halted due to the incidents.