A Japanese hotel association said Friday that about 34 percent of its member hotels have provided falsely labeling food, according to local media.

Tetsuya Kobayashi, president of the Japan Hotel Association, said in a lower house hearing on consumer issues that 84 out of 247 member hotels confessed they falsely labeled food and announced the wrong doing publicly, reported Japan's Kyodo News.

The report said the number would grow as some hotels have yet to reply a survey by the association.

Kobayashi testified that 59 hotels falsely labeled shrimps, the most common false labeling food item, while 39 hotels failed to label beef injected with fat as processed meat, according to Kyodo news.

The association is forming a special panel to prevent such false label, said Kyodo news.