Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Food Safety in Japan


In Japan the amount of radiation in rice was only 0.1-0.01BQ/kg before the Fukushima disaster. … This shows how much the radiation has been contaminating the environment since the Fukushima disaster.  It means some of the Japanese rice that the EU imports outside Japan could contain up to 5000 times more radiation than before.   In Japan from April 1, 2012 the amount of allowable radiation in food was reduced to 100BQ/kg (for cesium). So it could mean that contaminated food which they can’t sell in Japan could be exported to the countries that have more relaxed regulations, such as EU countries and Thai (500) and Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippine, Vietnam, Malaysia(1000) and USA (1200).  Therefore, if possible I think it’s the best to avoid eating food produced in prefectures in the East and Kanto area in Japan such as: Fukushima, Ibaragi, Iwate, Miyagi, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Nagano, Akita, Yamagata, Shizuoka.  
(Details) Are imported food safe after Chernobyl and Fukushima disaster?  http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/are-imported-food-safe-after-chernobyl.html
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan – Imported food from Japan  http://www.maff.go.jp/j/export/e_shoumei/shoumei.html
A map of contaminated area in Japan:  http://onodekita.sblo.jp/article/57016460.html

 

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2 comments:

  1. Unknown14 December 2012 at 08:14

    its a shame the guvernment in japan doesnt mention strontium 90 and lead etc contamination levels also,

    great post! and thought i would post this here..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMQoJEZpr1A

    this video might be a good one to translate..??

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  2. Unknown14 December 2012 at 17:39

    Please refer to this site:
    http://blog.goo.ne.jp/tarutaru22/e/a8f8b3e66c246ef3c3df8699b3a2ec45
    Published by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology (Nov. 2011)

    This map (80km radium of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant)was published by shows the extent of contamination with Plutonium and Strontium 90.
    Black circle=Plutonium, red triangle=strontium90 (less than 950BQ/m2) and red triangle with numbers show more than 950BQ/m2

    I think it's probably right to say it is worse than it shows in the site because of continuous leak from 3.11 last year.

    Thanks for the information. I wish I can translate but there are too many information that I think it's good to be English but I'm not professional so it's all very time consuming. I'm just doing my best. Hope somebody will.


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