Tuesday 08th July, 10:45 AM JST TAKAMATSU — A meat packer was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for four years, on Tuesday for selling falsely labeled meat for use in public school lunches in Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, and defrauding a local authority of the relevant expenses. Handing down the ruling on Yoshikazu Fujimura, 71, Judge Yoshimasa Tsujii at the Takamatsu District Court’s Marugame branch said, ‘‘The defendant damaged public trust in the quality of school lunches and deepened people’s concern about the safety of food in general.’’ The court also handed down suspended jail sentences to two employees of a meat wholesaler who shipped Australian beef to Fujimura after labeling it as made domestically at his...
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