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 Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster was recently amended. The CFS is a unit of Government
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 of I-131 is only about eight days. More than seven years have passed since the
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.
Only 13 of 9,800 food samples tested during December were found to be unsatisfactory, meaning the overall
Continue Reading Hong Kong’s food safety center reports monthly, yearly data
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 of the legal limit for radiation and was not considered a public health threat. Regardless
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 Research Cluster and G-Tech began researching methods for detecting radioactive cesium in food. [caption id=”attachment_108552″
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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 harvest did not pass in 2012 or 2013 and had to be destroyed. 
Tsuneaki Oonami
Continue Reading Fukushima Rice Finally Passes Radiation Checks
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 affected, according to Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Buesseler
Continue Reading Woods Hole Scientist: Fukushima Leak Not Affecting U.S. Seafood
