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Japanese food safety
The small amount of food that the European Union imports from Japan will come under further scrutiny tomorrow (8 April) when EU national experts discuss food-safety controls introduced in Europe in the wake of evidence of nuclear contamination.
Last month, the EU stepped up controls on Japanese food imports, after authorities in the Fukushima prefecture found radioactive iodine in milk and spinach at levels that could be harmful to human health if ingested.
On 24 March the EU's standing committee on the food chain and animal health decided that all products bound for the EU market from Japan's 12 affected prefectures should be tested before leaving, and should face random tests on entering the Union. At least 20% of consignments of food and animal feed from Japan's other 35 prefectures will also be subject to random testing in the EU.
At the time European Voice went to press, no discoveries of contaminated food had been reported in the EU. The national experts, who make up the standing committee, meet tomorrow to share results obtained so far.
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