Britain lifting post-Fukushima restrictions on Japan food imports

Just shows how desperate post Brexit Britain has become.

Just shows how desperate post Brexit Britain has become.

Britain is not desperate.

Britain is not desperate.

Actually beyond desperate.

Britain is not desperate.

Actually beyond desperate.

No, doing quite well at the moment.

Ha

In what supermarket can I get these products?

Britain is desperate for investment after Brexit, and I have ZERO doubt Japan made this a stipulation in agreeing on keeping companies in Britain and with trade.

In what supermarket can I get these products?

Not sure, probably only affects Japanese restaurants which tend to be a little over prised anyway.

Good news.

Not that I'm particularly enamored with food in Britain, but now I will definitely bring my own.

zichiToday  01:25 pm JST

Chernobyl contaminated all of Europe.

Thanks for the tip. I'll stick to Chile from now.

The government does not test the produce. It is the prefecture government. Also, there are several citizen groups also testing. Just check online.

Thanks for this tip too. So the prefecture government is not the government? I'm confused. Who is doing the testing then? Where else are there prefectures in the world? I'm from a state. How about Canada? Can their prefectural government people come do the testing? I want good government testing practices.

Is a province the same as a prefecture?

Miyagi, Yamagata, Ibaraki, Gunma, Niigata, Yamanashi, Nagano and Shizuoka.

Fukushima & Miyagi, I can understand and also somewhat Yamagata and Ibaraki.

Restrictions on food from Gunma, Niigata, Yamanashi, Nagano and Shizuoka, though? I don't quite understand why there are restrictions on food from those prefectures?

Miyagi, Yamagata, Ibaraki, Gunma, Niigata, Yamanashi, Nagano and Shizuoka.

Fukushima & Miyagi, I can understand and also somewhat Yamagata and Ibaraki.

Restrictions on food from Gunma, Niigata, Yamanashi, Nagano and Shizuoka, though? I don't quite understand why there are restrictions on food from those prefectures?

If you saw radiation maps after the disaster in 2011, you will have seen that the radioactive plume swept down into Kanto in a kind of U-shape, including Tochigi, Ibaraki, Chiba, Gunma, Yamanashi more than other places ie higher concentrations. This is apart from the more well known corridor running north-west from Fukushima Daiichi, which led to those areas of Fukushima eventually being evacuated.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Radiation-contour-map-of-the-Fukushima-Daiichi-Accident-This-is-arranged-from-the-map_fig4_276315837

Chernobyl demonstrated that contamination levels can remain high in soils for decades, and so Fukushima contaminated food was treated in the same way, because of Europe's experience of Chernobyl.

I would guess that Shizuoka is included because high concentrations of radioactive isotopes were measured in green tea leaves from the prefecture in 2011, and it also produces mushrooms. Fungi are very effective at concentrating radiation that they draw up from soils. In contaminated areas, this makes them one of the riskiest foods to eat. (And also the meat of any wild animals that eat fungi)

The UK has traditionally put consumers' food safety above politics, but beggars can't be choosers. They were so desperate to get a FTA with anyone post-Brexit, that they no doubt agreed to any conditions the Japanese government made, just to get it over the line.

Lot of Indian dry foods are imported, surprisingly they are good quality compared to the foods exported from China, South Korea, Phillipines etc.

Careful with their expiry date labelling. If you go to Korean/Chinese supermarkets in UK. You can see the sticker (new date) sticked on the old sticker (expired date). Don't know why nobody has raised this concern over there and how they pass through the own 'British Food Safety System'.

The price of shipping containers has sky rocked over the last past few months, although the items from Fukushima might be cleared to enter the UK, the next restriction will be the price of the goods them selfs after the price of the container price has been added.

zichiDec. 11  02:54 pm JST

Japan is like the states of America. The central government in Tokyo and a prefecture government in every prefecture with a governor. Town and city governments too.

The central government in Tokyo is testing food from Fukushima and all the other prefectures but the data is difficult to follow.

I interpret difficult to follow, as do not believe.

I even drink imported water as much as possible.