Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries safety management of marine products in South Korea

Seafood

South Korea

Published Apr 24, 2023

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The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries said that seafood distributed in Korea is safe through seafood safety management. First of all, since 2015, it has been investigating radioactive materials in the domestic coastal waters, and it is expanding the radioactivity test of aquatic products at the production stage. Subsequently, import bans are imposed on all marine products from Japan’s 8 prefectures (Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, and Chiba), and additional nuclide testing is also conducted when trace amounts of iodine and cesium are detected on marine products imported from Japan. said he was doing In addition, the items subject to the distribution history management of imported marine products were expanded from 6 items before the nuclear power plant accident to 21 items as of 2023, and the mandatory labeling system for restaurants was announced to increase from 6 items in 2012 to 20 items by July this year. In addition, the standards for ...

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