The food retailer Meiji-ya was about to import blueberry jam from Europe, but the sample test found radioactive cesium exceeding the new safety limit of 100 becquerels/kg. Blueberries were grown in Poland.
From Chunichi Shinbun (5/1/2012):
食品小売りの明治屋（東京都中央区）が４月にオーストリアの業者から輸入しようとしたブルーベリージャム３個から、放射性セシウムの新基準値を超える１キログラム当たり１４０～２２０ベクレルが検出され、厚生労働省が荷の積み戻しなどを指示していた。
140 to 220 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium was detected in the three jars of blueberry jam that food retailer Maiji-ya (Chuo-ku, Tokyo) was about to import from an Austrian distributor in April. The Ministry of Health and Welfare ordered the company to send back the shipment.
輸入時の検査で判明した。商品は流通していない。輸入食品で新基準値を超えたのは初。
It was revealed by the import inspection, and the products are not sold in the market. This was the first time that imported food exceeded the new safety limit.
ブルーベリーの原産国はポーランドで、明治屋は輸入する予定だったジャム約１千個全てを返品する。
The blueberries were grown in Poland. Meiji-ya will return all 1,000 jars that it planned to import.
輸入食品のセシウムの規制値は３月までは同３７０ベクレルで、４月から新基準値の１００ベクレルが適用された。東京電力福島第１原発の事故後、３７０ベクレルを超えた輸入食品はなかった。
The safety limit for radioactive cesium for imported food was 370 becquerels/kg until the end of March, but starting April it is 100 becquerels/kg. Since the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident, there has been no imported food that was found with more than 370 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium.
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11 comments:
Brilliant. Now Japanese people can look at this news and rest assured that their strict requirements on radioactive Cesium mean they're actually safer than Poland's been for the last 26 years...I mean, what other conclusions could you possibly draw from this?
Wish they were as gung-ho about testing food in Japan as they seem to be for imported foodstuffs!
I wonder how much cesium is in Italian pasta and other European imports.
Thank you for posting... I wonder now too?
well now the japanese can point the finger at foreign produce so this will be good PR for sticking with japanese food.... japan is a safety country, they will all say
>japan is a safety country, they will all say
Who are "they"? The government officials may say, but not people on the street as far as I can tell.
Depressing, but not surprising and a reality we have to accept. There are traces of this "clean technology" everywhere, not to mention seafood after the dumping of nuke waste in the 1970s.
Curious what will happen to those 1000 jars. "They won't be sold on the market"... at least not the Japanese market.
The food Bq limits in EU were established in absence of an accident and their aim is to not disrupt the single market unnecessarily (not protect the population, in case you thought so).
Does this imply, and I think it does, that bb jam with radiation at this level has been slipping into the Meiji-ya shelves for who knows how many years before this???
Huge parts of Europe got dusted from Chernobyl. People have been living with it for 26 years. If you ate something from Europe, you probably got a taste. There was a major problem in the first few weeks when people ate food with high iodine concentrations. Since then, what has really happened?
We don't know what really happened because nobody (with the needed resources) is interesting in knowing.
Some will argue "see, Europe didn't drop dead due to contamination" but effects might be subtle, long-termed and you have to make an effort to see them.
Does anyone think, maybe their are countries buying food from areas that may be contaminated by Chernobyl, at very low cost and selling it on as their product.
Are they exporting more than they could possibly grow?
Is their a country that will do the same for Japan?
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