OSAKA -- Local residents here are angry over revelations that Snow Brand Milk Products Co.'s bacteria-tainted milk was released due to slipshod quality control procedures, and with their faith in the firm shattered, they are comparing the mass food-poisonings to last year's deadly nuclear accident.
On Tuesday, Osaka officials ordered two more Snow Brand milk products pulled from shelves and all products manufactured at the company's factory in Osaka's Miyakojima district recalled after 43 people became sick. They followed that order up with a demand that the plant suspend operations indefinitely.
With the latest revelations, serious questions have been raised by local citizens about both Snow Brand's quality control process and why local health inspectors failed to detect the problem earlier.