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Materials used to produce sake by a brewery in Kumamoto Prefecture possibly contained pesticide-tainted rice sold by Osaka-based Mikasa Foods.
Mikasa has been implicated in a scandal involving its illegal resale of rice tainted with carcinogenic mold and residual pesticides. Bishonen Corp., a sake brewery based in Jonanmachi in the prefecture, announced Tuesday that it would voluntarily stop shipment of its eight sake products for the time being. According to the brewery, it bought 32 tons of rice in six purchases from Tatsunomi, a Mikasa Foods affiliate based in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, between January and May this year. It is possible the company shipped about 30,000 cartons and bottles of sake products made with tainted rice. The company is considering several measures, including a voluntary recall of its sake products. Shintaro Ogata, vice president of Bishonen Corp., was furious over the issue. "I'm infuriated because our confidence [in Mikasa] was betrayed," he said. According to a survey conducted by the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry after the Mikasa scandal came to light, the tainted rice was sold to five sake breweries in the Kyushu region. Mikasa Foods have also collected 4 to 5 tons of tainted rice Friday and Saturday from a company that purchased it for "shochu" distilled alcoholic beverages. But it was unable to recover any tainted rice Sunday. Other Shochu producers within the same region have also purchased the tainted rice. These other five producers have been listed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Hikari Shuzo in Fukuoka Prefecture, Batsugun Shuzo and Rokuchoshi Shuzo in Kumamoto Prefecture, and Kikaijimashuzo Co. and Nishi Shuzo in Kagoshima Prefecture, according to the ministry. Some of them have started collecting products made with tainted rice or are voluntarily refraining from sales. Tainted rice has caused great concern with Japanese housewives as those who trust that the sake and shochu that they are drinking is also produced safely. Time will tell to see how much has been recovered and what further outfalls will occur. One wonders how this will effect sales of sake, which is already suffering from a downturn, due to increase of wine and beer being more fashionable and trendy. |
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