EU to ease Japan food import rule…

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T121020001960.htm　　 
Takehito Kudo / Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondent  BRUSSELS--The European Union has decided to substantially ease import restrictions on food products and animal feed from Tokyo and 10 prefectures that were imposed due to the crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant last year, it has been learned.  The 27-nation EU on Friday approved a draft revision to the import rules, which the European Commission is expected to finalize at its ministerial meeting by the end of this month and implement from Nov. 1.　　…… The EU began restricting Japanese food imports in late March last year after the start of the nuclear crisis triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake.  Under the current rules, the EU requires food and animal feed from Tokyo and 11 prefectures--Fukushima, Gunma, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Miyagi, Yamanashi, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa, Shizuoka and Iwate--to be inspected for radiation prior to being exported to EU countries.  An analysis report must also be attached to prove the products' radioactive iodine and cesium levels do not exceed EU standards. . 
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Do you know that EU’s allowable radiation level in the food is 200 - 600BQ/kg (500BQ/kg in UK) while in Japan it has lowered down to 100BQ/kg from 500BQ/kg in this April except for rice and meat.  So we might end up eating more radioactive Japanese food than people in Japan unless we know food we eat come from safer place in Japan.  
Reference: Are imported food safe after Chernobyl and Fukushima disaster?　　http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/are-imported-food-safe-after-chernobyl.html