SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Japanese seafood has not been banned in Singapore following the release of treated radioactive water on Thursday (Aug 24) from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean
The Singapore Food Agency maintained its position on the safety of food from Japan, saying its surveillance results, including for radiation, have been “satisfactory”.
Agreeing is 70-year-old Hong Yu, who will avoid seafood altogether, and opt for bottled mineral water wherever possible. In it, she stated that since 2019, the National Environment Agency has been closely monitoring Singapore’s waters as part of their environmental baseline radiation monitoring programme and found that “radioactivity measured continues to remain within our natural background levels”.
Singapore had lifted pre-export tests and Certificates of Origin on approved food imports requirements from Fukushima since 28 May, 2021 - about 12 years after Japan’s twin natural disasters of a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that caused the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011.
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