Does
this include irradiated food from Fukushima prefecture?!!!
US
exchanges organic foods agreement with Japan
After
several years of negotiations the United States and Japan are poised
to announce an organic foods trade agreement. The agreement is the
latest step in the global effort that could give consumers more
access to organic food.
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see video GO
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In a similar vein -
FISH
CAUGHT OFFSHORE FROM FUKUSHIMA HIT MARKETS IN JAPAN TODAY
26
September, 2013
via The Mainichi / Sep 26, 2013 / Fishery products caught off Fukushima Prefecture were ready for trial sale as early as Sept. 26 after fisheries cooperatives here resumed test fishing the day before.
,
Some
5.2 tons of 11 varieties of fish — including octopus, horsehair
crab, blackbelly rosefish and angler — were landed at the
Matsukawaura Port in Soma, northern Fukushima Prefecture, after 21
dragnet fishing boats returned there on the afternoon of Sept. 25.
After
screening the catches for radioactive materials, the seafood is to go
on trial sale at supermarkets and other retailers as early as Sept.
26.
The
58-year-old captain of a 19-ton boat that took part in the trial
said, “I felt good when I went fishing, but I’m concerned whether
the catches will find buyers. I want consumers to feel secure and eat
the products as we will only ship them after screening them
strictly.”
A
61-year-old official with the Soma-Futaba fisheries cooperative said,
“We can only earn a living on the sea. We had come to a standstill,
but we will move forward toward full-scale fishing.”
The
trial operation by the Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries
Co-operative Associations had been suspended for nearly one month
since the revelation of radioactively contaminated water leaks at the
Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant.
A
local fisheries cooperative in Iwaki, southern Fukushima Prefecture,
will also embark on test fishing on Oct. 3, for the first time since
the outbreak of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Source:
The
Mainichi
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