A ban on food and water from Japan, more radiation monitoring, soil and irrigation water sampling, and more money for food inspections are needed to protect against radiation emissions crossing the Pacific, says Food & Water Watch (F&WW).
In a letter to President Obama, the Washington, D.C.-based consumer group laid…
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Japanese milk and spinach just do not factor much in the U.S. food supply, but what about radioactive fish?
Five billion pounds of seafood are imported annually to the U.S. without much inspection.
But we should not worry for two reasons about Japan’s fish exports (mostly Pacific saury, chum salmon…
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On March 11 President Obama expressed his “deepest condolences” to the Japanese people for that day’s earthquake and tsunami. Later the same day he announced that he’d dispatched FEMA to Hawaii and other states and territories that might be impacted by coastal waves. Then the president went six days before…
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that it would bar imports of some dairy products and fresh produce from the area around Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
In a guidance issued to field personnel, FDA said shipments of spinach, milk and a leafy green called kakina…
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