Hong Kong steps up radiation inspections of Japanese seafood imports

Earlier this month, Lee said the Hong Kong government would take "decisive action" to protect public health, including "banning a large number of prefectures' sea products."

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As the Chinese contend with high levels of pollution already then adding more to the mix makes absolutely no sense…

Good! Keep up the pressure Hong Kong it is only financial loss that will make them see sense!

Probably a wise move

It's better to prevent than have your citizens suffer cancer or other diseases that are related to tritium.

Stay safe guys

Japan want their product to be become sellable abroad, shouldn't let Fukushima happened in the first place. Don't blame Tsunami, those region has Tsunami history.

https://news.usc.edu/86362/fukushima-disaster-was-preventable-new-study-finds/

Inspections on sea food from Japan are imperative to both counties.

I see by the packaging that Japan isnt just exporting seafood but useless plastic as well!

Agree with most posters on here. Inspections of radiation are necessary due to the stupid move of dumping radiated water in the ocean.

Good.

So many people can see into the future, it seems.

What happens when the water is released and these tests show no difference in the before & after? Wouldn't that prove that releasing this water is totally safe?

Buckle up for the abject lack of news stories about this, because the release will have zero effect on anything.

The easiest way to stop the release would be if it was suggested in the Chinese media what Japan and its food is unsafe.

Japan depends on Chinese money so much for tourism and investments (who would buy all the new real estate they build here) that they would fold in an instant with this stupid plan.

China puts far more of this type of waste into their own waters. Hongyanhe: 90T becquerels (2021)

Qinshan: 143T becquerels (2020) Ningde: 102T becquerels (2021) Yangjiang: 112T becquerels (2021)

Over the next 40 yrs, Fukushima plans to release 22T becquerels. Not even in the same waste consideration. China needs to get their own house in order before they start blaming others. BTW, Fukushima's annual release was 2.2T becquerels, before the tsunami in 2011. The Hong Kong nuclear plant just 30 km away releases over 100T becquerels annually. Kongers need to worry much more about their own waste than Japans.

The world should test all Chinese seafood catches for radiation.

This entire stink is purely political.

"inspections" sounds perfectly reasonable. "banning" not so much

CCP steps up anti Japanese propaganda as justification for increasing strangulation of democracy in Hong Kong. Headline fixed. You're welcome!

Just pure propaganda from the despicable Communist regime of Hong. Anyone who believes it is about "safety" is kidding themselves. The filthy HK government could not care less about the safety of their citizens - proven by how they treat them.

Great to see people caring about the health of their citizens

The radiation fears aren’t stopping the Chinese from visiting Japan. They are everywhere.

The Hong Kong government

(chuckles) Sure. The Hong Kong government.

has begun strengthening radiation inspections of seafood imports from Japan amid rising concerns over a plan

I.e., political grandstanding.

We will see if the Fukushima water release affects anything. Time will tell. However, many people do no realize or do not care that all ocean fish contains traces of mercury.

I still remember when the Japanese politicians said OISHI about Fukushima Strawberries just after the nuclear plant explosion to avoid panic....

do not trust the Japanese who are experts in lies and Tatemae!!

As they should. I wouldn’t trust anything the government says.

There are many areas in Fukushima, about 96% of the land which is free from contamination,

That's why Chinese and Koreans are said to be unable to understand ocean currents and westerly winds.

Even if Japan actually releases it, it will go around the Pacific Ocean and reach the Sea of Japan side, so tritium will be already diluted and hardly detected.

Rather, the wastewater discharged from China's nuclear power plants is more concentrated and dangerous, so if inspections are to be carried out, seafood caught in the East China Sea, the South China Sea, and the Yellow Sea should be inspected more thoroughly.

Especially in the East China Sea, where nuclear power plants are being built at a rapid pace due to power shortages in China, there is no doubt that the degree of pollution is higher than in Japan. (Currently 51 units). China ranks third in the world after the United States (93) and France (56)

Investigating the seafood in those seas is the act of protecting the Chinese people, but the Chinese Communist Party will never do such a thing.

It is only for political reasons, such as research on Japanese seafood.

Another thing the Chinese Communist government will do is stop the repeated poaching and deprivation of marine resources in the world's oceans. China has absolutely no right to criticize Japan.

As they should. I wouldn’t trust anything the government says.

So you trust the Hong Kong government over the Japanese one?

Unscientific falsehood as if Fukushima contaminated water is same to drainage of any other nuclear plants is rampant in Japanese society by LDP Govt and Tepco and obedient mainstream media and twitter "community note".

We got food bans from China, Hong Kong, Russia and South Korea.

Good job, TEPCO !!

Unscientific falsehood as if Fukushima contaminated water is same to drainage of any other nuclear plants

So what the scientists say is ... unscientific?

We got food bans from China, Hong Kong, Russia and South Korea.

None of these countries issued food bans. Maybe try less hyperbole?

Good on them. I would test it twice. Releasing contaminated water was a bad choice indeed. We are not going to escape the overspill on this one.

Political move pandering to emotional anti-scientific ignorance. Obviously achieving its purpose, just look at all the emotion based, evidence-lite knee jerk reaction posts above.

Time and time again they have been presented with the facts, but as they don’t fit the agenda they buy in to mere facts are ignored in favour of disinformation and and emotional rhetoric.

I think you can count on seeing a report in the future of a fish being rejected by China/Hong Kong and Korea.

It will be salted, planted or an inaccurate measurement, but the initial report is all they want. Nothing is ever corrected by the media. Websites will eat it up - more clicks.

Time and time again they have been presented with the facts

No-one presented no facts.

This has never been done before. The repercussions are unknown to humanity.

There are scientists against the plan in greater numbers. There's no scientific concensus.

This has never been done before. The repercussions are unknown to humanity.

There are scientists against the plan in greater numbers. There's no scientific concensus.

Yeah, yeah, we've heard all of that before ... and we heard it all from you. Every time your drivel gets debunked you move on to the next bullet point in your hymnal of hysterics, until you reach the end of the list and then you start over at the top. It's tiresome.

Cannot understand what drives you to cheerfully encourage the release of waste into the ocean.

What's your purpose? Why are you doing this?

Cannot understand what drives you to cheerfully encourage the release of waste into the ocean.

And where exactly do you read cheerfully?

Vice versa it seems amazingly myopic to me that you want them to spend what, decades of time and effort on inconsequential waste water. The very real and very dirty problem lies not there, it lies in the remnants of the reactor, and they need to tackle it sooner rather than later.

Question remains unanswered.

Why? Why are you doing this?

Question remains unanswered.

Would you accept an answer if you got one?

Why are you doing this?

Because I want them to tackle the real problem.

Can't understand the relation of using our oceans as a trash bin, and

tackle the real problem

Are you in the believe that letting them spill wastewater will make them more efficient?

Are you in the believe that letting them spill wastewater will make them more efficient?

So that's a no, going straight back to the list of bullet points. Thanks for the conversation.

If you don't expect them to be more efficient.

What did you mean with the

tackle the real problem

?

There are a lot of kids here, Roy. Not that there anything wrong with that.

I'm just trying to stop the madness.

Not event the IAEA recommends this plan.

But, who cares about the IAEA, right?

Who cares about Hong Kong, or South Korea, or China, or even Rusia?

Because the J-Gov is always right, infalible.

mat

What happens when the water is released and these tests show no difference in the before & after? Wouldn't that prove that releasing this water is totally safe?

Wouldn't know that if you didn't test right? Sooo they plan to test. As they should

I hope it's inspected before hitting the shelves here too.

If the research results of treated water provided by the Japanese government and the research results provided by the IAEA and scientists from around the world are wrong, a scientific rebuttal must be made.

As usual, there are a small number of strange people who speak out based on impressions rather than facts.

Repeatedly telling lies that the treated water contains a large amount of nuclides other than tritium is nothing more than creating harmful rumors about Fukushima.

The Japanese government only tells lies. The IAEA has been bought and is issuing bogus reports. Scientists around the world, who cannot be named, are against the release of treated water. There are no concrete examples.

And this claim is only made by the people of the current opposition party in South Korea.