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Two top officials with Nippon Meat Packers have expressed their intention to resign in order to take responsibility for a meat mislabelling scandal, reports the Asahi Shimbun.
Vice President Heihachiro Azuma and Senior Managing Director Motoaki Shoji of Japan's top meat processor will step down amid charges subsidiary Nippon Food Inc. disguised foreign beef as domestic in order to profit from a government buyback program implemented last fall after Japan's first-ever outbreak of mad cow disease.
With the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries weighing what punishments it can impose, and with consumer ire boiling, Nippon Meat Packers concluded that the resignation of the two executives, who also serve as officers for Nippon Food Inc., would be inevitable, the Asahi Shimbun report went on to say.
Nippon Meat Packers is expected to shed some light on what parties were directly responsible for the beef mislabelling next Tuesday when it releases the results of an internal probe.
