A Poisonous Gyoza Case
Frozen poisonous jiao-zi, Chinese-origin dumpling with minced pork and vegetable stuffing, called gyozas in Japanese were exported to Japan several years ago.
The food products harmed some Japanese consumers from late 2007 to 2008. Total 1700 Japanese people reported health problems they suffered after having taken the frozen foods imported from China.
It caused a big turmoil in Japan. The Japanese Government requested the Chinese authorities to investigate the case and improve quality of Chinese foods to be exported to Japan.
Then in 2010 the Chinese police arrested an ex-worker of a company which made the frozen gyozas.
The criminal person was not a full-time worker. He had complaints about his status in a plant, so that he picked up a syringe on the floor of a medical room. He used it to inject some agricultural chemical liquid into bags of completed frozen gyozas.
Recently a Japanese newspaper reporter visited the home of this criminal. It was in a very local village in China.
As he arrived at the house, the old father of the gyoza poisoner rushed to the door from the roof where he was working. He shouted, "Have you come to tell me about my son?"
According the poor farmer, since his son aged 36 was arrested, there were no messages and no information about him coming to this poor farm house in a poor village.
The Chinese police never revealed what happened to the criminal. So, some parties concerned suspect that the police coerced the ex-part time worker into making a false confession.
Yet, there is noway to ascertain what really happened with him.
Anyway, since then, there has been in Japan no filing of cases of contaminated frozen gyozas imported from China.
But, one poor father seems to be still waiting for his son to be released by the police in China while nobody talks about the incident any more in Japan nowadays.
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