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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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New type of pesticide found in Chinese-made dumplings

TOKYO, Japan - A new type of toxic organophosphate pesticide has been detected in ''gyoza'' dumplings (shown in photo) made by Tianyang Food in China's Hebei Province. The Japanese Consumers' Cooperative Union said the dumplings produced on June 3 last year contained organophosphate pesticide called dichlorvos with a high concentration of 110 parts per million in the dough and 0.42 ppm in ingredients -- levels that affect consumers' health if they eat two pieces.

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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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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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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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Japanese police visit China plant over dumpling case

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Japanese police officials visit Tianyang Food Plant in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, on July 14, 2010. The officials are in China to gather information on the pesticide-tainted dumpling case that sickened 10 people in Japan in 2007-2008.

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Japanese police visit China plant over dumpling case

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Japanese police officials visit Tianyang Food Plant in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, on July 14, 2010. The officials are in China to gather information on the pesticide-tainted dumpling case that sickened 10 people in Japan in 2007-2008.

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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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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.

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Packages possibly containing dumplings taken to police vehicle

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Packages believed to contain frozen meat dumplings are taken from Tianyang Food in Shijiazhuang in China's Hebei Province to a police vehicle on Feb. 16. The Tianyang Food factory produced frozen meat dumplings linked to food poisoning cases in Japan.

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Chinese dumpling factory is 'biggest victim,' head says

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Di Menglu, head of the Tianyang Food factory that produced frozen meat dumplings linked to food poisoning cases in Japan, speaks at a news conference in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, on Feb. 15. Di said the company is a victim of the scandal and that he hopes the factory's operations will resume in the near future.

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Chinese dumpling factory opened to media

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - The inside of the Tianyang Food factory in the Chinese city of Shijiazhuang, which produced frozen meat dumplings linked to food poisoning cases in Japan, is opened to the media on Feb. 15. From top to bottom are photos of a vegetable-washing section, a site for producing ingredients, a dumpling-making section, a wrapping site and an inspection section.

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Chinese dumpling factory is 'biggest victim,' head says

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Di Menglu, head of the Tianyang Food factory that produced frozen meat dumplings linked to food poisoning cases in Japan, speaks at a news conference in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, on Feb. 15. Di said the company is a victim of the scandal and that he hopes the factory's operations will resume in the near future.

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Chinese dumpling factory opened to media

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Photo taken Feb. 15 shows packs of frozen meat dumplings at the Tianyang Food factory in the Chinese city of Shijiazhuang. The packs have been recalled after it was revealed in late January that 10 people in Japan had suffered food poisoning since December after eating dumplings produced by the factory and imported by a Japanese company.

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No problems found at dumpling factory, Hebei official says

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Di Menglu, head of a factory owned by Tianyang Food, speaks about a food-poisoning case in Japan at a news conference at a hotel in Shijiazhuang on Feb. 2. Di said the factory was ''extremely surprised'' at the incident, adding that the company's products have all cleared internal testing.

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No problems found at dumpling factory, Hebei official says

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Di Menglu, head of a factory owned by Tianyang Food, speaks about a food-poisoning case in Japan at a news conference at a hotel in Shijiazhuang on Feb. 2. Di said the factory was ''extremely surprised'' at the incident, adding that the company's products have all cleared internal testing.

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No problems found at dumpling factory, Hebei official says

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Cheng Fang, head of the Hebei Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, speaks at a news conference in Shijiazhuang on Feb. 2 about an investigation into Tianyang Food in connection with a food-poisoning outbreak in Japan.

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Japanese taken ill after eating Chinese-made frozen dumplings

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Photo shows Tianyang Food Plant in Hebei Province which manufactured frozen ''gyoza'' dumplings suspected of having caused food poisoning in Japan.

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CHINA-GUANGXI-BAISE-RESUMPTION (CN)

(220218) -- BAISE, Feb. 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A technician (L) checks the growth situation of cherry tomatoes at a vegetable base in Tianyang District of Baise City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Feb. 17, 2022. Baise is in an orderly work resumption. On Feb. 17, the city reported no new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-BAISE-RESUMPTION (CN)

(220218) -- BAISE, Feb. 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A villager works at a vegetable base in Tianyang District of Baise City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Feb. 17, 2022. Baise is in an orderly work resumption. On Feb. 17, the city reported no new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-BAISE-RESUMPTION (CN)

(220218) -- BAISE, Feb. 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A staff member works at a production line at an agricultural enterprise in Tianyang District of Baise City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Feb. 17, 2022. Baise is in an orderly work resumption. On Feb. 17, the city reported no new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-WUYING VILLAGE-RURAL DEVELOPMENT (CN)

(211230) -- RONGSHUI, Dec. 30, 2021 (Xinhua) -- Local staff member Qin Tianyang (1st L) and villagers prepare for the "Liang Bu" (a kind of traditional hand-made cloth of Miao ethnic group) fair, in Wuying Village on the border between south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and southwest China's Guizhou Province, on Oct. 18, 2021. Wuying Village is a Miao ethnic-minority hamlet that nestles snugly in the towering mountains stretching across the border between Guangxi and Guizhou. Locals have suffered from the area's barren lands, harsh natural environment and inconvenient transportation for years. The people of Wuying shook off poverty in 2020. In 2021, with the "pairing assistance" for rural vitalization from Lianjiang City of south China's Guangdong Province, local authorities have sped up efforts in promoting its all-round development in economy, education, culture and ethni.....

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CHINA-GUANGXI-WUYING VILLAGE-RURAL DEVELOPMENT (CN)

(211230) -- RONGSHUI, Dec. 30, 2021 (Xinhua) -- Villagers Liang Zuying (L) and Wu Meifu of Wuying Village view scenery on a boat in the sea near Lianjiang City, south China's Guangdong Province, Nov. 4, 2021. Wuying Village is a Miao ethnic-minority hamlet that nestles snugly in the towering mountains stretching across the border between Guangxi and Guizhou. Locals have suffered from the area's barren lands, harsh natural environment and inconvenient transportation for years. The people of Wuying shook off poverty in 2020. In 2021, with the "pairing assistance" for rural vitalization from Lianjiang City of south China's Guangdong Province, local authorities have sped up efforts in promoting its all-round development in economy, education, culture and ethnic unity. (Photo by Qin Tianyang/Xinhua)

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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. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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(CORRECTED) Chinese police detain suspect in tainted dumplings

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Photo taken March 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. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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Chinese police arrest suspect in tainted dumplings case

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 20, 2010, shows a factory operated by Tianyang Food Plant based in northern China's Hebei Province. Chinese authority said on March 26, 2010, that Chinese police have detained a 36-year-old man, who was a temporary employee at the plant, on suspicion of poisoning frozen dumplings which were later exported to Japan and sickened 10 people in 2008. (Kyodo)

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Chinese police arrest suspect in tainted dumplings case

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 20, 2010, shows a factory operated by Tianyang Food Plant based in northern China's Hebei Province. Chinese authority announced on March 26, 2010, that Chinese police have detained a 36-year-old man, who was a temporary employee at the plant, on suspicion of poisoning frozen dumplings which were later exported to Japan and sickened 10 people in 2008. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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Japan fact-finding team visits Hebei over food poisoning

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Members of a Japanese government team put on sanitary caps before inspecting Tianyang Food's factory of frozen meat dumplings in China's Hebei Province over food-poisoning incidents in Japan involving the factory. At left is the factory chief. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Japan fact-finding team visits Hebei over food poisoning

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Members of a Japanese government team inspect Tianyang Food's factory of frozen meat dumplings in China's Hebei Province over food-poisoning incidents in Japan involving the factory. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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New type of pesticide found in Chinese-made dumplings

TOKYO, Japan - A new type of toxic organophosphate pesticide has been detected in ''gyoza'' dumplings (shown in photo) made by Tianyang Food in China's Hebei Province. The Japanese Consumers' Cooperative Union said the dumplings produced on June 3 last year contained organophosphate pesticide called dichlorvos with a high concentration of 110 parts per million in the dough and 0.42 ppm in ingredients -- levels that affect consumers' health if they eat two pieces. (Kyodo)

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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). (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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No problems found at dumpling factory, Hebei official says

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Di Menglu, head of a factory owned by Tianyang Food, speaks about a food-poisoning case in Japan at a news conference at a hotel in Shijiazhuang on Feb. 2. Di said the factory was ''extremely surprised'' at the incident, adding that the company's products have all cleared internal testing. (Kyodo)

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No problems found at dumpling factory, Hebei official says

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Cheng Fang, head of the Hebei Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, speaks at a news conference in Shijiazhuang on Feb. 2 about an investigation into Tianyang Food in connection with a food-poisoning outbreak in Japan. (Kyodo)

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No problems found at dumpling factory, Hebei official says

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Di Menglu, head of a factory owned by Tianyang Food, speaks about a food-poisoning case in Japan at a news conference at a hotel in Shijiazhuang on Feb. 2. Di said the factory was ''extremely surprised'' at the incident, adding that the company's products have all cleared internal testing. (Kyodo)

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Packages possibly containing dumplings taken to police vehicle

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Packages believed to contain frozen meat dumplings are taken from Tianyang Food in Shijiazhuang in China's Hebei Province to a police vehicle on Feb. 16. The Tianyang Food factory produced frozen meat dumplings linked to food poisoning cases in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Chinese dumpling factory opened to media

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - The inside of the Tianyang Food factory in the Chinese city of Shijiazhuang, which produced frozen meat dumplings linked to food poisoning cases in Japan, is opened to the media on Feb. 15. From top to bottom are photos of a vegetable-washing section, a site for producing ingredients, a dumpling-making section, a wrapping site and an inspection section. (Kyodo)

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Chinese dumpling factory opened to media

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Photo taken Feb. 15 shows packs of frozen meat dumplings at the Tianyang Food factory in the Chinese city of Shijiazhuang. The packs have been recalled after it was revealed in late January that 10 people in Japan had suffered food poisoning since December after eating dumplings produced by the factory and imported by a Japanese company. (Kyodo)

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Chinese dumpling factory is 'biggest victim,' head says

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Di Menglu, head of the Tianyang Food factory that produced frozen meat dumplings linked to food poisoning cases in Japan, speaks at a news conference in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, on Feb. 15. Di said the company is a victim of the scandal and that he hopes the factory's operations will resume in the near future. (Kyodo)

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Chinese dumpling factory is 'biggest victim,' head says

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Di Menglu, head of the Tianyang Food factory that produced frozen meat dumplings linked to food poisoning cases in Japan, speaks at a news conference in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, on Feb. 15. Di said the company is a victim of the scandal and that he hopes the factory's operations will resume in the near future. (Kyodo)

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Japanese taken ill after eating Chinese-made frozen dumplings

SHIJIAZHUANG, China - Photo shows Tianyang Food Plant in Hebei Province which manufactured frozen ''gyoza'' dumplings suspected of having caused food poisoning in Japan. (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)