中国毒餃子事件食品公司雇員判無期徒刑

Recently the FNN News on-line reported the following:

中国ギョーザ中毒事件　食品工場元従業員の男の無期懲役が確定

2007年末から2008年1月にかけて、中国製の冷凍ギョーザを食べた日本人が相次いで中毒症状を起こした事件で、食品工場の元従業員の男の無期懲役が確定した。
河北省石家荘市にあった食品工場の元従業員・呂月庭被告は、1月20日、現地の裁判所から冷凍ギョーザに殺虫剤を混ぜた危険物質投入の罪で、無期懲役の1審判決を受けていた。
その後、期限内に控訴しなかったため、2月14日までに呂被告の無期懲役が確定した。
この事件は、2007年12月から2008年1月にかけて、石家荘市にある天洋食品の工場で製造された冷凍ギョーザを食べた、千葉県などの10人が中毒症状を起こしたもので、ギョーザからは、有機リン系の殺虫剤「メタミドホス」が検出され、中国国内でも被害者が出ていた。(02/16 00:40)

(試譯文)

In connection with the incidents happened from the end of 2007 to January 2008 that some Japanese who had eaten Chinese-made frozen meat and vegetable dumplings showed intoxicated symptoms successively, a male former employee of a food factory was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The defendant Lu Yueting was a former employee of the food factory which suited in Shijiazhuang of the Hebei Province. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the first trial by a court at the same location on January 20th for the crime of injecting insecticide mixed hazardous substance into the frozen meat and vegetable dumplings.

Because no appeal was filed within the time limit, defendant Lu’s life imprisonment was confirmed on February 14th.

The incidents happened from December 2007 to January 2008 when ten people from Chiba Prefecture etc. who ate the frozen meat and vegetable dumplings manufactured by the factory of Tianyang Food Company in Shijiazhuang started to show intoxicated symptoms. Organophosphorus insecticide "methamidophos" was detected in the dumplings. In China, there were also victims of these meat and vegetable dumplings.

    Japanese newspapers in April 2010 had already reported that Lu Yueting was arrested by the police in China (see my translation on Japanese news dated 28th April 2010). The incident reached the China’s highest level before Lu was trialed in a Chinese court.