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Melamine-tainted dough spurs Saizeriya to give pizza refunds

YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) Saizeriya Co., a restaurant chain offering low-cost Italian food, said Tuesday it will pay refunds to customers who ate its pizzas after the made-in-China dough was found to be tainted with the industrial chemical melamine. Saizeriya... ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Tue, Oct 21 2008

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22 Oct 08 visit National › Saizeriya refunds customers for pizza charges  »  Japan Today Italian restaurant chain operator Saizeriya Co started returning charges Tuesday to customers who recently consumed its pizzas, some of which have been found to be…
20 Oct 08 visit National › Melamine detected in Saizeriya's pizza ingredients  »  Japan Today Italian restaurant chain operator Saizeriya Co said Monday that a very small amount of the industrial chemical melamine has been detected in its pizza dough…
06 Jan 09 visit Saizeriya to post ¥5.8 billion loss  »  Japan Times Italian restaurant chain Saizeriya Co. said Tuesday it expects to post a group net loss of ¥5.8 billion instead of an earlier projected profit of ¥4.2 billion for the business year ending in August. The projected loss represents a sharp deteriorati...
10 Feb 09 visit Saizeriya's founder to step down  »  Japan Times Saizeriya Co. decided Tuesday that its founder, Yasuhiko Shogaki, will step down as president and be replaced April 1 by director Issei Horino, the company said. It will be the first time the operator of the Italian restaurant chain has changed its...
04 Oct 08 visit National › Importer says tainted Chinese-made chocolate snack sold nationwide  »  Japan Today An Osaka-based importer of a made-in-China chocolate snack found tainted with the toxic chemical melamine said Saturday the product has been sold to retailers nationwide,…

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