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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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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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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.