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Ban Food and Water from Japan, F&WW Tells Obama

By Dan Flynn on April 1, 2011

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 March 24, 2011

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…

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One by One, Food Safety Agencies Address Radiation

By Dan Flynn on March 24, 2011

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…

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FDA Halts Some Milk, Produce Imports from Japan

By Mary Rothschild on March 23, 2011

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.

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