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Fukushima rice was sold labelled as from Nagano http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/09/fukushima-rice-was-sold-labelled-as-from-nagano/ by Mochizuki   September 27th, 2012 In this May, a rice wholesaler in Nagano sold 26 tones of rice from Fukushima and Aomori with deceptive label of the origin to be from Nagano prefecture.

Police is suspecting this wholesaler in Nagano prefecture sold about
200 kg of Fukushima rice “Akitakomachi” labelled as the rice from
Nagano, which violates the Unfair Competition Prevention Act and JAS.
Nagano prefecture is about 268 km from Fukushima plant. The rice was
sold to Osaka.

The company is “Hashimoto shoji” in Komagane city, Nagano prefecture.
The president, Hashimoto (57) sold 200kg of Fukushima rice in the
package labelled as “Nagano” for 60,000JPY.
Police has been investigating his office and warehouse since this May.
He states he did not have enough supply of Nagano rice, purchased rice
from Fukushima to sell with deceptive label of the origin.

September 28, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Fukushima 2012