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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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Safety control improved in factory

OIZUMI, Japan - A monitoring device installed at the side of a production line of the factory of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc. is pictured on Aug. 5, 2014, in Oizumi, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan. The factory's safety controls are being improved after a disgruntled worker laced frozen food products with pesticide last year.

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Safety control improvement required

OIZUMI, Japan - A security monitor installed on the ceiling of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc. factory is pictured on Aug. 5, 2014, in Oizumi, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan. The factory's safety controls are being improved after a disgruntled worker laced frozen food products with pesticide last year.

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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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Pesticide residue in frozen food products

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the seven different products of Aqlifoods Co., a subsidiary of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc., in which malathion, an organic phosphate typically used as a pesticide, was detected. Aqlifoods said Dec. 31, 2013, that pesticide residue found in some of its frozen food products could sicken a child who consumed just one-eighth of a croquette, dramatically revising its previous estimate of 60 croquettes comprising a toxic dose. The packet at top left is the same product as the croquette package in which the highest concentration was detected.

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Pesticide residue in frozen food products

TOKYO, Japan - Toshio Kushiro, president of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc., bows in apology at a press conference in Tokyo in the early hours of Dec. 31, 2013. Aqlifoods Co., Maruha's subsidiary based in Gunma Prefecture, said the same day that pesticide residue found in some of its frozen food products could sicken a child who consumed just one-eighth of a croquette, dramatically revising its previous estimate of 60 croquettes comprising a toxic dose.

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Maruha Nichiro subsidiary recalls 6.3 million packs of frozen food

TOKYO, Japan - Yutaka Tanabe (R), president of Aqlifoods Co., and Toshio Kushiro, president of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc., bow in apology at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 29, 2013. They announced Aqlifoods, a subsidiary of Maruha Nichiro, is recalling a total of 6.3 million packs of frozen foods including croquettes and pizza after pesticide was detected in some of them.

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Maruha Nichiro subsidiary recalls 6.3 million packs of frozen food

TOKYO, Japan - Yutaka Tanabe (R), president of Aqlifoods Co., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 29, 2013, with Toshio Kushiro, president of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc. They announced that Aqlifoods, a subsidiary of Maruha Nichiro, is recalling a total of 6.3 million packs of frozen foods including croquettes and pizza after pesticide was detected in some of them.

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Police search seafood firms over false labeling of eel products

KOBE, Japan - Takashi Oohori (R), president of Kobe-based seafood wholesaler Shinko Gyorui Ltd., a subsidiary of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc., bows in apology during a press conference in Kobe on July 3 after police raided his company and seafood importer Uohide as part of an investigation into a false-labeling scandal in which the two firms allegedly sold grilled eels farmed in China as products made using eels raised in Japan.

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2 fish product dealers passed off Chinese eels as Japanese

KOBE, Japan - Takashi Ohori, president of Shinko Gyorui Ltd., a subsidiary of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc., and other executives of the fish products wholesaler bow in apology at a news conference in Kobe on June 25, after the government accused the company and Uohide, an Osaka-based seafood dealer, of labeling grilled eels farmed in China as eels grown in Isshiki, a town in Aichi Prefecture famous for growing quality eels.

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2 fish dealers pass off Chinese eels as Japanese

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Akihiro Nakatani, president of Uohide, an Osaka-based fishery product sales firm, speaks to reporters in Tokushima on June 25 after the fisheries ministry announced Uohide and Shinko Gyorui Ltd., a subsidiary of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc., sold grilled eels farmed in China by falsely labeling them as being products farmed in Japan's Aichi Prefecture.

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Police search seafood firms over false labeling of eel products

KOBE, Japan - Takashi Oohori (R), president of Kobe-based seafood wholesaler Shinko Gyorui Ltd., a subsidiary of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc., bows in apology during a press conference in Kobe on July 3 after police raided his company and seafood importer Uohide as part of an investigation into a false-labeling scandal in which the two firms allegedly sold grilled eels farmed in China as products made using eels raised in Japan. (Kyodo)

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2 fish dealers pass off Chinese eels as Japanese

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Akihiro Nakatani, president of Uohide, an Osaka-based fishery product sales firm, speaks to reporters in Tokushima on June 25 after the fisheries ministry announced Uohide and Shinko Gyorui Ltd., a subsidiary of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc., sold grilled eels farmed in China by falsely labeling them as being products farmed in Japan's Aichi Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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2 fish product dealers passed off Chinese eels as Japanese

KOBE, Japan - Takashi Ohori, president of Shinko Gyorui Ltd., a subsidiary of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc., and other executives of the fish products wholesaler bow in apology at a news conference in Kobe on June 25, after the government accused the company and Uohide, an Osaka-based seafood dealer, of labeling grilled eels farmed in China as eels grown in Isshiki, a town in Aichi Prefecture famous for growing quality eels. (Kyodo)

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Safety control improved in factory

OIZUMI, Japan - A monitoring device installed at the side of a production line of the factory of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc. is pictured on Aug. 5, 2014, in Oizumi, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan. The factory's safety controls are being improved after a disgruntled worker laced frozen food products with pesticide last year. (Kyodo)

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Factory worker sentenced to 3.5 yrs for food poisoning

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Toshiki Abe, 49, who was sentenced on Aug. 8, 2014 to three and a half years in prison for lacing frozen food products with pesticide at a factory of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc. in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, last fall. (Kyodo)