乳製品過剰下における乳業資本の収益構造に関する考察 : 雪印乳業食中毒事件の背景を視野に

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This study examined the background of the mass food poisoning of June, 2000, caused by Snow Brand Milk Products Co. Ltd., by analyzing the profitability structure of the milk production business. The company had suffered reduced profits under the fierce competition of the industry in the 1990s. The company attempted to increase profitability by cutting various costs, not by improving their low capital productivity, making it shy away from active capital investment. That slowed down the rate at which the technological level of production facilities improved. Furthermore, in order to increase production, manufacturing facilities were added, not renewed. As a result, their manufacturing process became mutated, leading to the occurrence of hygienic problems that could not be predicted in the designing stage of the system.
2005-03-11