Investigative sources said Monday that, prior to his arrest, a factory worker suspected of lacing frozen food with pesticide at a factory in the town of Oizumi, Gunma Prefecture, described to police how such an act could be carried out.
Toshiki Abe, 49, was arrested Saturday after he and every other worker employed at the Aqlifoods Co. factory at the center of the food poisoning scandal was questioned. Aqlifoods is a subsidiary of Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc.
After his arrest, Abe told police he did not recall committing the act he described.