U.S. bans Japanese food imports

        ’On the morning of the 13th local time, the Japanese government held a cabinet meeting and officially decided to discharge the nuclear waste water stored in the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the sea. This decision of the Japanese government caused an uproar all over the world.

　　 However, the US State Department issued a statement supporting the Japanese government's decision to discharge pollutants into the sea. US Secretary of State Blincol even "thanks" Japan on social media.

　　 However, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) previously updated No. 99-33 Import Alert, a series of Japanese foods are still banned from entering the United States...

        According to the FDA announcement, the Japanese foods involved include: milk, butter, dry dairy products; fish, sea urchins, clams and other marine biological products; meat, meat products and poultry (beef, boar, bear, deer, duck, hare and pheasant products) ); vegetables, citrus, citron, kiwi, etc., involving many places such as Aomori, Fukushima, Miyagi, Nagano, Tochigi.

　　 Since 2011, China Customs has banned the import of food, edible agricultural products and feed from 10 prefectures in Japan's radiation zone. The 10 prefectures are: Fukushima, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Miyagi, Niigata, Nagano, Saitama, Tokyo, and Chiba. (In November 2018, China Customs announced the lifting of Niigata rice import restrictions.)

　　 The South Korean government also strongly protested Japan’s decision to discharge nuclear wastewater into the sea. South Korea currently prohibits the import of aquatic products from Fukushima and the 8 nearby counties, and conducts more than 2,000 radioactive tests on 40 kinds of seafood cultivated in the country each year, and plans to increase the number of tests to more than 3,000 this year.

　　 According to Yonhap News Agency, various large supermarkets in South Korea plan to continue not selling Japanese seafood. Large Korean supermarkets such as Emart, Lotte Mart, and Homeplus have stopped selling Nissan seafood since 2011. Previously, all Nissan seafood sold in Korea was replaced by products imported from Korea or other countries.