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Pesticide food contamination strikes 300 in Tokyo

More than 300 people have fallen ill in Tokyo, Japan, with Maruha Nichiro Holdings, the country’s largest seafood company, at the centre of a food poisoning scandal.

Police have launched an investigation into the company after it was revealed last month that some frozen food products had been contaminated with an agricultural chemical called malathion.

Local media have said police believe the pesticide was mixed into products at the Gunma plant north of Tokyo, which manufactures frozen foods like pizzas and lasagnes.

According to SMH, consumers have reported symptoms including vomiting, diarrhoea and other symptoms of food poisoning, and the Maruha Nichiro has received about 460,000 phone calls from consumers about the poisoning and has so far recovered about 1.2 million out of the 6.4 million packages it aims to recall.

The company said that none of the affected products have been shipped overseas.

 

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