{"id":151388,"date":"2023-02-07T10:18:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T01:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=151388&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2023-02-07T10:18:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T01:18:14","slug":"kumamoto-company-president-accused-of-food-labeling-violation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kumamoto-company-president-accused-of-food-labeling-violation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumamoto Company President Accused of Food Labeling Violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The President of a seafood company in Arao City, Kumamoto, was arrested by the police in Fukuoka on suspicion of violating the Food Labeling Law. The arrest was made on the suspicion that the President and two acquaintances conspired to sell approximately 100 tons of Korean abalone as Kumamoto abalone to a seafood company in Ube City, Yamaguchi for about 41 million yen from May of three years ago to November of the following year. The investigation so far has revealed that the accused&#8217;s company sold over 8,200 tons of falsely labeled abalone. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20230206\/5010019126.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-151390\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/fnn_crams-unsplash_2023_cl.jpg?resize=1400%2C931&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Kumamoto Company President Accused of Food Labeling Violation\" width=\"1400\" height=\"931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/fnn_crams-unsplash_2023_cl.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/fnn_crams-unsplash_2023_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/fnn_crams-unsplash_2023_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C681&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/fnn_crams-unsplash_2023_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/pt-br\/@hjkp?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">henry perks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/aBjxZCqXOpM?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unsplash<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Get Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu area news and events in English regularly.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sign up for our <\/span><b>free<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> weekly newsletter. 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The arrest was made on the suspicion that the President and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":151392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-151388","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kumamoto-prefecture","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/151388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}