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(Previous month)Consumer Voices
-Food Safety Citizens' Watch requests prohibition of name of "Health food" to government
Aiming at prevention of health damage that increases suddenly (2004/08/26)
Safety Alerts
-E. coli bacteria is detected from crustacean from China
Osaka Prefecture orders stop of us (2004/08/26)
Product Safety
-Why did defect turn out after as many as two years had passed from sales?
LCD TV screen doesn't function due to defect of AC adaptor, Hitachi will replace about 15,000 free of charge (2004/08/24)
Safety Alerts
-Administrative guidance to protect health, of spraying agricultural chemicals to residential quarter is not observed
Civic group "Anti-agricultural chemicals Tokyo group" submits request of improvement to Agriculture Ministry (2004/08/23)
Safety Alerts
-Illegal Viagra elements are detected from supplement as nourishment robust foods
Fukuoka Prefecture found in trial buying investigation (2004/08/23)
Products Safety, Environmental protection
-Is fluoroplastics products like "Teflon" really safe?
Consumer group requests precautionary safety measure to the government due to anxiety of health that rises inside and outside country (2004/08/20)
BSE
-Answer with "I do not want to eat US beef" is 40 percent : Internet investigation
In condition of import restart, opinion with "Execution of blanket test on all slaughtered cattle for mad cow disease in Japan" is 40 percent (2004/08/20)
Products Safety
-Anxiety, distrust to washing dryer of each company extend
Hitachi H&L free will check about 9,000 because of accident of water drip occurred to seam of hose (2004/08/18)
Consumer Alerts
-Way is made clever, damage becomes aggravated
Amount of damage by “It's me" frauds reached 1.5 billion yen, increased rapidly twice or more (2004/08/18)
Consumer Complaints
-Consumer complaint consultation number of Japan broke worst record, reached 1.37 million of 500,000 increases compared with previous year
Complaint concerning contract, cancellation increases rapidly: Is it warning in contract society? (2004/08/09)
Safety Alerts
Tokyo Disney Sea hotel had sold cookie with undisplayed allergic element for as many as three years
Violation of an allergic ingredients label is second only in this year following chocolate in March (2004/08/09)
Doubt of medical treatment
As for organ transplant in foreign countries, there are a lot of doctors who doubt organ buying and selling
It was clarified by the questionnaire of the Japan Society for Transplantation (2004/08/06)
BSE
-Consumer groups of Japan severely repelled "Review of the blanket test on all slaughtered cattle for mad cow disease in Japan"
Japanese Government is expected to be examined to exclude young cows from the inspection (2004/08/06)
Watch Out !
-Pokemon Pikachu of toy major company Tommy is dangerous
Sewing-machine needle mixes with 620,000 stuffed animals made in China, a part shipped to U.S. (2004/08/05)
Safety Alerts
-Health Ministry detected additive not admitted by law from the Noni Juice from Vietnam
Insecticide detected that exceeded a legal standard from the lentil from France (2004/08/04)