The FDA Quietly Bans Food Products From 14 Japanese Prefectures Because Of 3 Meltdowns At Fukishima

Here is a list of banned products the FDA declares a radiation threat. You can view it on the FDA’s site as well | here | this includes a full listing of prefectures and foods that are banned.

 

 

From June 1, 2012 to July 10, 2013 the Japanese Prime Minister ordered the addition of the following products to the group of products restricted from distribution into the market:
� wild mushrooms from the Aomori prefecture;� wild aralia sprout, azuki bean, bamboo shouts, chestnuts, ostrich fern,
soybean, ume, giant butterbur, uwabamisou, Alaska Pollock, barfin flounder, black cow-tongue, black rockfish, braddblotched rockfish, brown hakeling, conger eel, fat greenling, flathead, flathead flounder, fox jacopever, goldeye rockfish, gurnard, halfbeak, black porgy, eel, seabass, littlemounth flounder, long shanny, marbled flounder, nibe croaker, northern sea urchin, ocellate spot skate, olive flounder, pacific cod, panther puffer, poacher, red tongue sole, ridged-eye flounder, rockfish (sebastes cheni), sea raven, shotted halibut, slime flounder, spotted halibut, starspotted smooth-hound, starry flounder, stone flounder, surfperch, venus clam, vermiculated puffer, cooper pheasant, green pheasant, hare, and spot-billed duck from the Fukushima prefecture;� wild mushrooms, Salmon (landlocked)(excluding farm raised), whitespotted char(excluding farm raised), Bear meat, boar, cooper pheasant and vesison from the Gunma prefecture;� ocellate spot skate, pacific cod, stone flounder from the Ibaraki prefecture;� buckwheat, soybean, black porgy, seabass, bear meat, venison, and cooper pheasant from the Iwate prefecture;� buckwheat, ostrich ferns, rice, soybean, ayu(excluding farm raised), Salmon (landlocked) (excluding farm raised), black porgy, and bear meat from the Miyagi prefecture;� wild mushrooms from the Nagano prefecture;� bear meat from the Niigata prefecture;� wild mushrooms from the Saitama prefecture;� wild mushrooms from Shizuoka prefectures;� chestnut, wild ostrich fern, and whitespotted char(excluding farm raised) from the Tochigi prefecture;� bear meat from the Yamagata prefecture; and� wild mushrooms from the Yamanashi prefecture.

This means no such products may lawfully be placed in the domestic or export markets.

From June 1, 2012 to July 10, 2013 the Japanese Prime Minister also ordered the removal of the following products from the group of products restricted from distribution into the market:

� Tea leaves from the Chiba, Gumna, Kangawa, and Tochigi prefectures; and

� Pacific cod from the Iwate and Miyagi prefectures.

This means these products may now lawfully be placed in the domestic or export markets.

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FDA recognizes that the government of Japan is taking steps to address this issue and FDA will continue to provide support to their efforts.

Guidance:

Districts may detain, without physical examination, the specified products from firms in the ***Fukushima, Aomori, Chiba, Gumna, Ibaraki, Iwate, Miyagi, Nagano, Niigata, Saitama Shizuoka, Tochigig, Yamagata and Yamanashi prefectures.***FDA and the Japanese government will continue to collaborate to ensure products from the affected prefectures do not pose a health risk to U.S. consumers. FDA will continue monitoring the public health risks due to radionuclide contamination, and when appropriate will remove the Import Alert and resume routine coverage of entries.

For a complete listing of prefectures and foods visit the FDA website here.