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 &
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'Hot' Mackerel Unlikely, and It Won't Get Into USA
By Dan Flynn on
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
One by One, Food Safety Agencies Address Radiation
By Dan Flynn on
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
FDA Halts Some Milk, Produce Imports from Japan
By Mary Rothschild on
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