An Aichi Prefecture waste disposal company accused of on-selling meat cutlets that it was supposed to throw away has been linked to the illegal sale of thousands more food packages.
As the cutlet scandal widened to involve at least three prefectures, Aichi police late Thursday raided Daiko on suspicion of violating the industrial disposal law.
On Wednesday Ichibanya Co., which operates Curry House Coco Ichibanya restaurants, said that it had asked Daiko to dump 40,000 of its Coco Ichibanya-brand frozen cutlets because one might contain a piece of plastic up to 8 mm long.