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The Croquette That Exposed Japan's Biggest Food Fraud
The Croquette That Exposed Japan's Biggest Food Fraud
A single DNA test in spring 2007 found pork, chicken, and unexplained meats inside a frozen beef croquette labeled “one hundred percent ground beef,” revealing an operation that shipped 9,838 tons of adulterated meat across 22 prefectures. How did a company lauded by the Ministry one month later secretly supply school lunches, military bases, and hospitals with contaminated and relabeled product for nearly three decades?
In this episode, we tell the documented story of Meat Hope Incorporated: what the company produced, the internal orders…
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