Companies maliciously mislabeled tons of imported eels
This big scandal of the week:
The fisheries ministry Wednesday issued business improvement orders to two companies that mislabeled tons of eels imported from China and pretended they came from a Japanese region famed for its eel products.
Osaka-based trader Uohide and Kobe-based seafood wholesaler Shinko Gyorui Ltd. even used the name of a fictitious manufacturer under the scheme to win higher prices for domestic eels, especially those from Isshiki, Aichi Prefecture, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
According to the ministry’s investigation, the two companies sold at least 390,000 eels, or 49 tons, imported from China as domestic products.
Reports have since emerged of a supplier paying a 100 million yen bribe to the head of another company with the expectation that the other company would take sole responsibility for the mislabeling scandal.
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Tsk, tsk!
Eel tampering – when will people learn?
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Why do the Chinese always do this?
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They didn’t. This is strictly a domestic problem.
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I know, but the domestic problems never get the finger pointing the Chinese ones do.
Japan has had heaps more food scandals but should the Chinese have one…
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True, but there is a whole world of difference between labeling edible Chinese eels as Japanese ones, or labeling lower-quality beef as high-quality beef, or changing best-by dates… and contaminating food with poison. Japan has more than its fair share of scandals, but most of them do not involve health-safety issues. On the other hand, Chinese scandals (and there have been a whole lot more than one) often involve death and injury when they occur.
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