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FDA addresses worries about food imports from Japan
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is monitoring the safety of imported products with radiation screening of shipments from Japan.
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare has ordered a stop to the sale of raw milk, spinach and kakina from Fukushima prefecture, and of spinach and kakina from Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma prefectures.
In order to complement the measures that Japan has taken and to strengthen the global food safety net regarding certain products, on March 22, 2011, FDA issued an Import Alert (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_621.html
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) regarding the importation of all milk and milk products and fresh vegetables and fruits produced or manufactured from the four Japanese prefectures of Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma. In addition, FDA will continue to flag all entries from Japan in order to determine whether they originated from the affected area. FDA will test all food and feed shipments from the affected area.
http://www.fda.gov/newsevents/publichealthfocus/ucm247403.htm
American scientist working for the U.S. Department of Energy government research laboratory, Steve Goheen, left, points at the Radiation Portal Monitor which, is used to detect radiation levels on shipments arriving from other countries, while talking with another scientist Shane Peper at Manila's south harbor, Philippines, on Monday, March 21, 2011. Bureau of Customs deputy commissioner Horacio Suansing Jr. said that they have raised heightened alerts on all ports to monitor meat and dairy products imported from Japan, following the damage of the Fukushima nuclear plant in Fukushima. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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