China – the world’s largest buyer of seafood exported from Japan – will now scrutinize documents accompanying food exported from the archipelago
Its principles China they are going to ban food imports from roughly a fifth of its prefectures Japans, for safety reasons, Chinese customs announced today, following Tokyo’s decision to dump radioactively contaminated water from the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima at the ocean.
China –the largest seafood buyer exported from Japan worldwide – will henceforth scrutinize the documents accompanying food exported from the archipelago, above all catch, the customs press release added.
It is emphasized that surveillance measures will be strengthened and detection of radioactive substancesin order to guarantee the safety of food imported from Japan.
The purpose is to prevent any importation of food contaminated with radioactivity, the same source explained.
For weeks, Beijing has expressed its sharp contrast tth in Tokyo’s decision to dump radioactively contaminated water from the Fukushima plant into the sea.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) gave anyway this week green light to the treated dumping into the sea of a million tonnes of water used to cool the plant’s meltdown reactors in 2011, when the Fukushima triple disaster — the earthquake, tsunami and the worst nuclear accident in history — occurred after that in Chernobyl.
Chinese customs pointed out that an IAEA report approving the move did not reflect the views of all experts involved in the valuation process, and its conclusions were not unanimously adopted.
Source :Skai
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