Snow Brand Food Co. admitted Wednesday that it misidentified Australian beef as domestic to take advantage of a government subsidy introduced after the mad cow disease outbreak.
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| Shozo Yoshida |
Tokyo-based Snow Brand Food, a subsidiary of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., asked warehouser Nishinomiya Reizo in October for permission to allow it to secretly repackage the Australian beef it was storing into boxes labeled as domestic meat, according to Yoichi Mizutani, the president of the warehouse firm.