(XINHUA)

Lu Yueting attends his trial at the Municipal Intermediate People's Court in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, on January 20.

Lu was sentenced to life imprisonment for poisoning frozen dumplings from December 2007 to January 2008, which left four Chinese and nine Japanese citizens sick.

The Shijiazhuang Municipal Intermediate People's Court delivered the verdict during a public hearing.

Lu, 39, a native of Jingxing County in Hebei, worked at the Tianyang Food Plant based in Shijiazhuang from 1993 to 2009.