The majority of topics highlighted at a recent World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting on food safety had already been discussed before.
At the WTO Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures meeting in July, members
Continue Reading Almost all trade concerns at WTO meeting previously discussed
The European Commission is to lift import restrictions for food from Japan following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station in 2011.
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the EU Commission, said the European Union had
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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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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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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
Continue Reading Hong Kong partially lifts food safety restrictions imposed after nuclear disaster
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.
The half-life
Continue Reading Iodine-131 (I-131) radiation testing of Japanese food no longer required
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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Food 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
Continue Reading Slight Radioactivity Found in Japanese Tea Shipped to Hong Kong
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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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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