Saturday, April 23, 2011

JAPAN - Inspection of contaminated food

"The control and restriction of agricultural commodities by the prefectures will now be organized by the boroughs," said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano. Among the prefectures which have undergone the prohibition to collect and deliver products such as spinach (Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma) since March 21, some areas were not affected by radioactive contamination.

Therefore farmers, suppliers and consumers have requested to have more details and distinctions among the contaminated areas. "With this new organization, some areas will be able to resume their distributions and locations of departments that have not yet been affected by this measure may also be subject to the restriction that the test results to be made a Once a week, especially in the Tokyo prefecture, Miyagi, Yamagata, Niigata, Nagano, Saitama and Chiba, "tells the Asahi Shimbun.

No comments:

Post a Comment