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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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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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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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Father of suspect in dumpling poisoning

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Photo shows the gates to the home where Lu Yueting, a suspect in the poisoning of dumplings that sickened a total of 10 people in Japan in 2007 and 2008, lived with his parents-in-law in a village in the suburbs of Shijiazhuang in Hebei Province, China, on March 28, 2010.

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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.'' (Kyodo)

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Father of suspect in dumpling poisoning

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Photo shows the gates to the home where Lu Yueting, a suspect in the poisoning of dumplings that sickened a total of 10 people in Japan in 2007 and 2008, lived with his parents-in-law in a village in the suburbs of Shijiazhuang in Hebei Province, China, on March 28, 2010. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)