Hong Kong has strengthened inspection of vegetable imports from Japan, expanding the scope of tighter controls beyond seafood after Tokyo confirmed plans to release treated radioactive water from Fukushima, Jiji news agency reported on Wednesday.
Hong Kong had said it would ban seafood products from a large number of Japanese prefectures if Tokyo went ahead with a plan to discharge the water into the sea from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Tokyo has said it would begin the release some time this summer, and received backing from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for the plan earlier this month.
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Yubaru
Inspection is one thing, and probably prudent. Nothing wrong here.
Meiyouwenti
Not so fast, Hong Kong. The planned release of treated radioactive water hasn’t even begun.
Fighto!
Pure anti-Japan politics.
People are far, far more at risk just being in Hong Kong - due to the police state summarily arresting anyone who has uttered or written anything about "democracy" or being opposed to the corrupt HK rulers - than eating anything from Japan.
Being in Hong Kong-China is incredibly dangerous. Japan's seafood is, and will remain, safe.
kwatt
It is a pure political pressure. Japan lately decided to stop exporting semiconductor precision machines to China.
Mark
Why do I have the feeling that this Fukushima radioactive water release is going to do MORE harm to Japan than TEPCO profits!??
Larr Flint
Good move fruits and vegetables from Fukushima should be carefully checked.
I went to one of the supermarkets in Tokyo and saw a box of cheap peaches for 1000 yen only. It was from Fukushima and no-one was buying it.
I gave up on Fukushima products long time ago but with that radioactive water realese you need to be even more careful.
Andy
We also stopped buying anything from the Fukushima area and seafood from the Pacific side, over 10 years ago. A very prudent move by Hong Kong.
wallace
Industrial rice which is sold in restaurants and used in processed foods and sake is not labelled with the place of origin. Fukushima rice is mixed with rice from other prefectures. You would not know if you are eating Fukushima rice.
Roy Sophveason
The Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety (CFS) has been testing imported food since March 12, 2011.
As of June 30 they tested a total of 776,225 samples.
The number of unsatisfactory samples: three. All of them on March 23, 2011.
They have not found a single unsatisfactory sample in more than twelve years.
indigo
Japan is criticizing and teasing China for a long time.
Now it is China's revenge at the right time and right reason. the ban is justified as nobody trusts Japan's BS and propaganda news.
Rodney
milk is even worse.
Roy Sophveason
So ... stop eating food entirely, just to be safe? Seems a bit radical to me, but okay.
Michael Machida
Every country should inspect Japans' seafood for radioactive fish bowls. Safety first!
Roy Sophveason
Radioactive fish bowls? The Canadian prog rock band?
elephant200
US Navy nuclear aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines also sailing in the Japanese and South Korean EEZ waters and those warships were frequently moving recent years. Every country should inspection the radioactive waters discharged by those vessels, they are also a source of radioactive pollutants!
falseflagsteve
I think they are being childish and beastly, it’s very immature isn’t it.
Yubaru
Every prefecture should be checking too! Wouldn't be the pc thing to do publicly, but for safety , it's just the prudent thing to do.