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Showa Denko K.K. subsidiary company counterfeits industrial liquid waste data
Consumer group is dumbfounded to rampancy of corporate crime
By JCPRESS
The counterfeit of the drainage data of the factory came to light again.
Showa Denko K.K. subsidiary company "Showa Aluminum Alloy K.K." that manufactured a high-quality aluminum alloyfalsified data like staying below the standard though the amount of the effluent from the factory exceeded the standard provided by the agreement on pollution prevention connected with Chiba Prefecture and Chiba City.
The numerical value of the maximum concentration COD (chemical oxygen demand) also exceeded the standard that Water Pollution Control Law provided. This company was neglecting the report.
Chiba Prefecture guided the improvement to this company based on the agreement on pollution prevention.
The consumer group is leaking the breath of successive the data counterfeit event by the enterprise that represents Japan such as Mitsui & Co., Ltd. and JFE, a steel manufacture major company that was born by the business integration of NKK and Kawasaki Steel Corporation, East Japan Ironworks , saying that "The corporate crime makes cleverly and has become aggravated more and more".