Tokyo .- U.S. has banned imports of dairy products and vegetables from areas near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (northeast Japan) by radioactive contamination detected recently, reported the local agency Kyodo. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA for its acronym in English) said in a statement that customs will stop all dairy products, fresh vegetables and fruits from the provinces Nipponese Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma due to contamination radioactive.
The FDA said it will review all such imports from Japan to determine whether they originate in the four affected provinces and analyze the radiation from those that come from the area. The regulatory organization will maintain the ban until it is confirmed that the products of the areas near the center of Fukushima Daiichi, which works to contain the radioactivity, are safe.
In paragraph food, especially imported into the United States and processed marine products in Japan, a country that provides the 4 percent of all food imports from the U.S. rate. The FDA has stressed that because of the devastating earthquake on March 11 in northeast japonésel food trade with the affected provinces stopped because of logistical problems, so that no contaminated products in their market.
Today, Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, called on authorities to suspend the distribution Fukushima and discourage the consumption of 11 types of vegetables, while a similar measure asked for milk and parsley in the province of Ibaraki, further south.
The FDA said it will review all such imports from Japan to determine whether they originate in the four affected provinces and analyze the radiation from those that come from the area. The regulatory organization will maintain the ban until it is confirmed that the products of the areas near the center of Fukushima Daiichi, which works to contain the radioactivity, are safe.
In paragraph food, especially imported into the United States and processed marine products in Japan, a country that provides the 4 percent of all food imports from the U.S. rate. The FDA has stressed that because of the devastating earthquake on March 11 in northeast japonésel food trade with the affected provinces stopped because of logistical problems, so that no contaminated products in their market.
Today, Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, called on authorities to suspend the distribution Fukushima and discourage the consumption of 11 types of vegetables, while a similar measure asked for milk and parsley in the province of Ibaraki, further south.
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