TOKYO: The chairman and president of a major Japanese dietary supplement maker announced their resignation on Tuesday, as the company probes dozens of...
The chairman and president of a major Japanese dietary supplement maker announced their resignation on Tuesday, as the company probes dozens of deaths potentially linked to products meant to lower cholesterol.
Red yeast rice or “beni koji” has been used in food, alcoholic drinks and folk medicine for centuries around East Asia. The decision was made “to clarify executive responsibility over a series of actions by our company related to the ‘beni koji’ issue”, it said in a statement. At the time the government called Kobayashi Pharmaceutical’s delay in reporting the number of cases under investigation “extremely regrettable”.
“Kobayashi Pharmaceutical had never before received multiple reports of serious cases from doctors in such a short period of time,“ the report said.
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