U.S and EU ease import rules from areas near Fukushima, Japan

Published Sep 24, 2021

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The United States and European Union have updated the rules for importing food from areas near Fukushima in Japan. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has removed an import alert, while the European Commission has changed regulations to modify checks on food imports. These updates come after the 2011 nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which led Japan to prohibit the sale and export of certain food products from affected prefectures due to radionuclide contamination. The FDA and EU have concluded that food imported from Japan does not pose a food safety risk to consumers from radionuclide contamination, based on reviewing Japan's control measures and testing results.

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The United States and European Union have changed the rules around the import of food from areas near Fukushima in Japan. While the Food and Drug Administration has removed an import alert, the European Commission has amended regulations to modify checks on food imports. In March 2011, an accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant released radiological contamination to the surrounding areas. After the disaster, the Government of Japan determined that certain food products in affected prefectures, also known as states, were not fit for human consumption, because of the public health risk associated with radionuclide contamination and prohibited these items from sale in Japan and for export. American measures The U.S. Food and Drug Administration put in place an import alert on certain food products from Japanese prefectures near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011. It instructed FDA field personnel to detain shipments from Japan if the food is ...

Source: Foodsafetynews