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FSA considering advising end to Fukushima checks

By News Desk on December 27, 2021

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is proposing recommending a removal of import checks on products from Fukushima and nearby areas.

The FSA is reviewing the controls on imports of food from Japan, that have been…
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U.S and EU ease Fukushima import rules

By Joe Whitworth on September 24, 2021

The United States and European Union have changed the rules around the import of food from areas near Fukushima in Japan.

While the Food and Drug Administration has removed an import alert, the European Commission…
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Hong Kong partially lifts food safety restrictions imposed after nuclear disaster

By News Desk on August 20, 2018

Food  from Japan to Hong Kong is now being imported under eased and  newly effective food safety protocols.

According to the Hong Kong Center for Food Safety (CFS), the 7-year-old order in response to the…
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Iodine-131 (I-131) radiation testing of Japanese food no longer required

By Dan Flynn on April 27, 2018

A requirement put into effect six years ago after the Fukushima earthquake for Iodine-131 (I-131) radiation testing of food from East Japan has been lifted by the Hong Kong Center for Food Safety.

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Hong Kong’s food safety center reports monthly, yearly data

By News Desk on January 31, 2017

Hong Kong’s Center  for Food Safety (CFS), a unit of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has released the findings of its food safety report for December 2016 and surveillance information for 2016.

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Slight Radioactivity Found in Japanese Tea Shipped to Hong Kong

By News Desk on March 17, 2015

tea-and-kettle-406Food safety authorities in Hong Kong found trace amounts of radioactive cesium 137 in powdered tea imported from Japan last week, according to The New York Times.

The sample tested at nearly one percent…

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New Radiation Detector for Food Uses Space Technology

By News Desk on March 10, 2015

A collaboration between two companies has developed a device for detecting radiation-contamination food. After an earthquake and tsunami damaged Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011 and caused a significant leak of radioactive material, RIKEN Global…
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Fukushima Rice Finally Passes Radiation Checks

By News Desk on January 6, 2015

A local farming official in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, said Monday that rice grown in the area of the 2011 nuclear disaster has passed that country’s radiation checks. Small amounts of the region’s approximately 360,000-ton rice…
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Woods Hole Scientist: Fukushima Leak Not Affecting U.S. Seafood

By News Desk on September 12, 2013

Despite the recent admission from the Japanese government that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has been leaking radioactive water since it was badly damaged in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, U.S. seafood has not been…
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