MAFF prohibits private sector from applying strict safety limits

 

 

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan requested food makers and supermarket to stop their unique radiation measurement for food.

Japanese government applied new safety limit from April, which is 100Bq/Kg for ordinary food, but supermarket chain Aeon applies their original limit, which is 50Bq/kg.

MAFF states, excessive safety limit damages producers.

 

農林水産省はスーパーや食品業界などに、国の定める食品の安全基準よりも厳しい独自基準を設けることを止めるよう通達を出しました。

政府は今年4月から食品に関する新基準を定めており、一般食品では100Bq/Kgとしています。しかし、スーパー大手チェーンのイオンなどでは50Bq/Kgとするなど、独自の安全基準を設けています。

農林水産省は、過剰な規制は生産者に負担を与えるためと説明しています。

 

 

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This website updates the latest news about the Fukushima nuclear plant and also archives the past news from 2011. Because it's always updated and added live, articles, categories and the tags are not necessarily fitted in the latest format.
I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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