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Taiwan: Typhoon Danas Batters Southern Region, Leaving Widespread Damage 3

Typhoon Danas made landfall near Chiayi's Budai Township around 11:40 p.m. on Sunday, July 6, bringing gusty winds and heavy rainfall to the southern region. Typhoon Danas weakened to a tropical storm after its eye departed Taiwan early Monday.

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Civic group asks Snow Brand to hire outside food safety exec

OSAKA, Japan - Representatives of Kabunushi Ombudsman (Shareholder Ombudsman), an Osaka-based civic group, hand a letter to Snow Brand Milk Products Co. Vice President Haruhiko Okada (L) on April 17, asked the scandal-hit firm to hire an outside board member to ensure the safety of its food products.

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Criminal complaint filed against Snow Brand Food exec

TOKYO, Japan - Farm minister Tsutomu Takebe responds to questions from reporters at his ministry Feb. 1 after the ministry filed a criminal complaint against a Snow Brand Food Co. official who allegedly orchestrated the falsification of beef-product labels to obtain mad cow disease subsidies from the government.

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Snow Brand Food head office, warehouse inspected

SAITAMA, Japan - Saitama Prefectural government officials walk into a meat processing facility of Snow Brand Food Co. to investigate alleged fraud over false labeling of beef. Investigators from the Tokyo government's food inspection team and public health officials also searched Snow Brand Food's head office in Chuo Ward and warehouse in Ota Ward the same day.

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Snow Brand Food president resigns

TOKYO, Japan - Snow Brand Food Co. President Shozo Yoshida wipes his tears at an emergency news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 29 where he announced his resignation to take the blame for a series of scandals involving false labeling of beef in connection with mad cow disease. His resignation came a few hours after police began questioning Snow Brand Food executives in the meat marketing division of the Tokyo head office.

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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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Doi briefed on beef-labeling scandal

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Social Democratic Party leader Takako Doi (2nd from R) is briefed Jan. 28 by Yoichi Mizutani (R), president of storage contractor Nishinomiya Reizo in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, where Snow Brand Food Co. falsified data on imported Australian beef.

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All Snow Brand Food products removed from stores

KOBE, Japan - All Snow Brand Food Co. ham and sausage, delicatessen and processed-meat products are removed from shelves at a supermarket in Kobe on Jan. 26, as its scandal relating to mad cow disease was unveiled. Snow Brand Food's employees in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, repackaged 13.8 tons of Australian beef last October in order to pass it off as Japanese beef and claim government compensation under the buyback scheme.

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Snow Brand chieff suggests he may quit

TOKYO, Japan - Snow Brand Food Co. President Shozo Yoshida arrives at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on Jan. 25 for talks on the role his firm played in a new scandal related to mad cow disease. Yoshida indicated later he may resign to take responsibility for the company's fraudulent actions.

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Probe of Snow Brand Food expands to beef stored in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo metropolitan government inspectors enter Snow Brand Food Co.'s Tokyo headquarters Jan. 24 to check if beef the company has stored in the capital is actually domestic. It was revealed the previous day that the firm had passed off foreign beef as domestic to get government subsidies designed to compensate under a domestic beef buyback scheme to cope with the mad cow disease scare.

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Snow Brand Food products disappear from shops

OSAKA, Japan - A co-op in Osaka withdrew Snow Brand Food Co. products from the shelf Jan. 24 and posted a notice of sales suspension, a day after the meat packer admitted to a mad cow disease subsidy swindle.

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(2)Snow Brand Food disguises Ausie beef as Japanese

TOKYO, Japan - Shozo Yoshida (L), president of Snow Brand Food Co., bows in apology at a news conference at his company Jan. 23. The subsidiary of Snow Brand Milk Products Co. admitted it had disguised imported Australian beef as Japanese to take advantage of a government subsidy system introduced during the mad cow scare.

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(1)Snow Brand Food disguises Ausie beef as Japanese

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Boxes containing imported Australian beef disguised as Japanese are shown to members of the media at a warehouse in Nishinomiya on Jan. 22. Snow Brand Food Co., a subsidiary of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., admitted it had attempted to pass the beef off as Japanese to take advantage of a government subsidy system introduced during the mad cow scare in Japan.

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More than 2,000 firms hold shareholders' meetings

TOKYO, Japan - Shareholders of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., investigated last year over a food-poisoning scandal, enter a building June 28 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, to attend the company's general shareholders' meeting. Some 2,100 listed and unlisted companies across Japan held such meetings the same day.

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Papers on 9 Snow Brand execs sent to prosecutors

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Snow Brand Milk Products Co.'s plant in Taiki, Hokkaido. The plant former head Osamu Kubota is one of the nine company officials sent to prosecutors on March 16 on suspicion of professional negligence in the massive outbreak of food poisoning that hit western Japan last summer. Others include former Snow Brand President Tetsuro Ishikawa and former Senior Managing Director Hiroshi Soma. The powdered skim milk produced in Taiki was an ingredient in tainted dairy products such as low-fat milk and yogurt drinks made at Snow Brand's Osaka plant that led to widespread food poisoning in June and July last year.

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Scandal-hit Snow Brand closes Osaka plant after 45 years

OSAKA, Japan - Snow Brand Milk Products Co. on Jan. 31 closed down its plant in the city of Osaka (photo) following last year's food-poisoning outbreak caused by low-fat milk and yogurt manufactured there. Since 1956, the plant had been one of the company's main suppliers of dairy products, mostly to the Kansai region in western Japan.

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Snow Brand chief apologizes to Osaka city over poisoning

OSAKA, Japan - Kohei Nishi (L), president of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., bows his head deeply to Junichi Seki (R), deputy mayor of Osaka, at the Osaka city hall on Dec. 28. Nishi apologized for the food-poisoning outbreak caused by his company's products that affected more than 13,000 people in western Japan in June and July.

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Snow Brand Milk Products to close Osaka plant Jan. 31

OSAKA, Japan - Hideki Takenouchi (R), president of the Osaka branch of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., on Dec. 22 hands over to Hideo Nakazawa, head of the Osaka municipal health office, a notice of closure of the company's plant in Osaka's Miyakojima Ward on Jan. 31. Japan's biggest dairy product maker caused a widespread food-poisoning outbreak in June and July with contaminated low-fat milk and yogurt manufactured there.

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Snow Brand to close Osaka plant over food poisoning

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Snow Brand Milk Products Co.'s Osaka plant Dec. 22, which will be closed Jan. 31. The closure was announced the same day following widespread food-poisonings in June and July caused by low-fat milk and other dairy products manufactured there.

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Snow Brand to cut 1,300 jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Kohei Nishi, president of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., involved in a massive food poisoning scandal, meets the press at the Tokyo Stock Exchange building in Tokyo on Sept. 26. He unveiled a restructuring plan that includes cutting the company's workforce by 1,300 to 5,500 by the end of fiscal 2002.

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Police search Snow Brand office over poisoning

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers walk into the headquarters of Snow Brand Milk Products Co. in Tokyo on Aug. 30 to begin investigations aimed to determine the firm's criminal responsibility for a widespread food-poisoning case. More than 14,500 people fell sick in western Japan in June and early July after consuming the tainted Snow Brand milk products.

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Snow Brand's Nagoya factory resumes milk production

NAGOYA, Japan - Bottles of milk produced at a Snow Brand Milk Products Co. plant in Nagoya are seen ready for shipment as the plant resumed milk production July 27. The plant was the first to do so among the company's 20 plants across Japan following a 15-day suspension in the wake of a food-poisoning outbreak that made more than 14,700 people ill, mainly in western Japan, since late June.

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Inspections at Snow Brand plants begin

TOKYO, Japan - Experts inspect a factory at Akabane, Tokyo of Snow Brand Milk Products Co. on July 18. The company, mired in a widening food-poisoning scandal, said such inspections are under way at all it 20 plants nationwide.

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Snow Brand employees apologize to consumers

OSAKA, Japan - Two employees of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., mired in a snowballing food-poisoning scandal, visit one of consumers in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on July 12 and bow in apology on behalf of their company.

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Health ministry holds hearing over Snow Brand poisoning

TOKYO, Japan - Akihiko Sasajima (R), vice president of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., attends a hearing July 11 held by the Ministry of Health and Welfare at its building in Tokyo. The hearing is to decide whether to revoke a hygiene certification granted to a Snow Brand factory in Osaka whose products allegedly caused a mass outbreak of food poisoning.

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Snow Brand officials apologize for tainted, recycled milk

OSAKA, Japan - Yasuo Sunaga (L), chief operations officer of the Western Japan Branch Office of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., and Katsutoshi Keira (R), general manager of public relations at the company's headquarters, bow in apology July 10 at a news conference at the office in Osaka's Kita Ward. The officials responded to reports that low-fat milk produced by Snow Brand is believed to be behind a massive outbreak of food poisoning in western Japan, and that the company reused products that had been returned or never shipped out to retailers.

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Another Snow Brand product found contaminated

OSAKA, Japan - Snow Brand Milk Products Co., whose contaminated products have caused widespread food poisoning since late June, announced on July 7 that a yogurt drink produced at its Osaka plant has also been found to be contaminated by toxin-producing bacteria. The photo shows the affected yogurt, sold in 1-liter and 500-milliliter packages under the brand 'Nomu Yoguruto Mainichi Honebuto.'

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Snow Brand pres. apologizes, offers to resign

TOKYO, Japan - Tetsuro Ishikawa (2nd from R) and two other executives of Snow Brand Milk Products Co. bow as they apologize for the widespread food poisoning caused by the company's milk products at a news conference held in Tokyo on July 6. Ishikawa offered to resign to take responsibility.

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Contaminated Snow Brand milk products recalled, sorted out

OSAKA, Japan - Employees at Snow Brand Milk Products Co. sort out contaminated milk products at the company's Osaka plant in Miyakojima Ward on July 6. The products, contaminated with a toxin-producing bacteria, have been recalled after causing widespread food poisoning over the past week in western Japan.

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Snow Brand pres. offers to quit over food poisoning

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Tetsuro Ishikawa, president of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., who announced July 6 he will resign to take responsibility for a recent outbreak of food poisoning caused by the company's milk products. More than 11,000 people in eight prefectures in western Japan have fallen ill in the past week after consuming low-fat and calcium-enriched milk produced by the leading dairy products maker at its Osaka plant.

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Probe of Snow Brand Food expands to beef stored in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo metropolitan government inspectors enter Snow Brand Food Co.'s Tokyo headquarters Jan. 24 to check if beef the company has stored in the capital is actually domestic. It was revealed the previous day that the firm had passed off foreign beef as domestic to get government subsidies designed to compensate under a domestic beef buyback scheme to cope with the mad cow disease scare.

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Snow Brand chieff suggests he may quit

TOKYO, Japan - Snow Brand Food Co. President Shozo Yoshida arrives at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on Jan. 25 for talks on the role his firm played in a new scandal related to mad cow disease. Yoshida indicated later he may resign to take responsibility for the company's fraudulent actions.

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All Snow Brand Food products removed from stores

KOBE, Japan - All Snow Brand Food Co. ham and sausage, delicatessen and processed-meat products are removed from shelves at a supermarket in Kobe on Jan. 26, as its scandal relating to mad cow disease was unveiled. Snow Brand Food's employees in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, repackaged 13.8 tons of Australian beef last October in order to pass it off as Japanese beef and claim government compensation under the buyback scheme.

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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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Snow Brand Food president resigns

TOKYO, Japan - Snow Brand Food Co. President Shozo Yoshida wipes his tears at an emergency news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 29 where he announced his resignation to take the blame for a series of scandals involving false labeling of beef in connection with mad cow disease. His resignation came a few hours after police began questioning Snow Brand Food executives in the meat marketing division of the Tokyo head office.

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Snow Brand Food head office, warehouse inspected

SAITAMA, Japan - Saitama Prefectural government officials walk into a meat processing facility of Snow Brand Food Co. to investigate alleged fraud over false labeling of beef. Investigators from the Tokyo government's food inspection team and public health officials also searched Snow Brand Food's head office in Chuo Ward and warehouse in Ota Ward the same day.

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Civic group asks Snow Brand to hire outside food safety exec

OSAKA, Japan - Representatives of Kabunushi Ombudsman (Shareholder Ombudsman), an Osaka-based civic group, hand a letter to Snow Brand Milk Products Co. Vice President Haruhiko Okada (L) on April 17, asked the scandal-hit firm to hire an outside board member to ensure the safety of its food products.

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Doi briefed on beef-labeling scandal

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Social Democratic Party leader Takako Doi (2nd from R) is briefed Jan. 28 by Yoichi Mizutani (R), president of storage contractor Nishinomiya Reizo in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, where Snow Brand Food Co. falsified data on imported Australian beef.

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Criminal complaint filed against Snow Brand Food exec

TOKYO, Japan - Farm minister Tsutomu Takebe responds to questions from reporters at his ministry Feb. 1 after the ministry filed a criminal complaint against a Snow Brand Food Co. official who allegedly orchestrated the falsification of beef-product labels to obtain mad cow disease subsidies from the government.

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More than 2,000 firms hold shareholders' meetings

TOKYO, Japan - Shareholders of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., investigated last year over a food-poisoning scandal, enter a building June 28 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, to attend the company's general shareholders' meeting. Some 2,100 listed and unlisted companies across Japan held such meetings the same day.

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Papers on 9 Snow Brand execs sent to prosecutors

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Snow Brand Milk Products Co.'s plant in Taiki, Hokkaido. The plant former head Osamu Kubota is one of the nine company officials sent to prosecutors on March 16 on suspicion of professional negligence in the massive outbreak of food poisoning that hit western Japan last summer. Others include former Snow Brand President Tetsuro Ishikawa and former Senior Managing Director Hiroshi Soma. The powdered skim milk produced in Taiki was an ingredient in tainted dairy products such as low-fat milk and yogurt drinks made at Snow Brand's Osaka plant that led to widespread food poisoning in June and July last year.

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Scandal-hit Snow Brand closes Osaka plant after 45 years

OSAKA, Japan - Snow Brand Milk Products Co. on Jan. 31 closed down its plant in the city of Osaka (photo) following last year's food-poisoning outbreak caused by low-fat milk and yogurt manufactured there. Since 1956, the plant had been one of the company's main suppliers of dairy products, mostly to the Kansai region in western Japan.

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Snow Brand chief apologizes to Osaka city over poisoning

OSAKA, Japan - Kohei Nishi (L), president of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., bows his head deeply to Junichi Seki (R), deputy mayor of Osaka, at the Osaka city hall on Dec. 28. Nishi apologized for the food-poisoning outbreak caused by his company's products that affected more than 13,000 people in western Japan in June and July.

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Snow Brand to close Osaka plant over food poisoning

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Snow Brand Milk Products Co.'s Osaka plant Dec. 22, which will be closed Jan. 31. The closure was announced the same day following widespread food-poisonings in June and July caused by low-fat milk and other dairy products manufactured there.

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Snow Brand Milk Products to close Osaka plant Jan. 31

OSAKA, Japan - Hideki Takenouchi (R), president of the Osaka branch of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., on Dec. 22 hands over to Hideo Nakazawa, head of the Osaka municipal health office, a notice of closure of the company's plant in Osaka's Miyakojima Ward on Jan. 31. Japan's biggest dairy product maker caused a widespread food-poisoning outbreak in June and July with contaminated low-fat milk and yogurt manufactured there.

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Snow Brand to cut 1,300 jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Kohei Nishi, president of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., involved in a massive food poisoning scandal, meets the press at the Tokyo Stock Exchange building in Tokyo on Sept. 26. He unveiled a restructuring plan that includes cutting the company's workforce by 1,300 to 5,500 by the end of fiscal 2002.

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Police search Snow Brand office over poisoning

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers walk into the headquarters of Snow Brand Milk Products Co. in Tokyo on Aug. 30 to begin investigations aimed to determine the firm's criminal responsibility for a widespread food-poisoning case. More than 14,500 people fell sick in western Japan in June and early July after consuming the tainted Snow Brand milk products.

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Snow Brand's Nagoya factory resumes milk production

NAGOYA, Japan - Bottles of milk produced at a Snow Brand Milk Products Co. plant in Nagoya are seen ready for shipment as the plant resumed milk production July 27. The plant was the first to do so among the company's 20 plants across Japan following a 15-day suspension in the wake of a food-poisoning outbreak that made more than 14,700 people ill, mainly in western Japan, since late June.

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Inspections at Snow Brand plants begin

TOKYO, Japan - Experts inspect a factory at Akabane, Tokyo of Snow Brand Milk Products Co. on July 18. The company, mired in a widening food-poisoning scandal, said such inspections are under way at all it 20 plants nationwide.

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Snow Brand officials apologize for tainted, recycled milk

OSAKA, Japan - Yasuo Sunaga (L), chief operations officer of the Western Japan Branch Office of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., and Katsutoshi Keira (R), general manager of public relations at the company's headquarters, bow in apology July 10 at a news conference at the office in Osaka's Kita Ward. The officials responded to reports that low-fat milk produced by Snow Brand is believed to be behind a massive outbreak of food poisoning in western Japan, and that the company reused products that had been returned or never shipped out to retailers.