U.S. halts food imports from Japan nuclear zone

[Mojorabbit]

Source: reuters


Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:51am EDT

Reuters) - The United States became the first nation to block imports from ally Japan's radiation zone, saying it will halt milk, vegetable and fruit from areas near the tsunami-smashed nuclear plant because of contamination fears.

The Food and Drug Administration's decision to stop imports from four Japanese prefectures in the crisis-hit northeast crystallized international anxiety about the impact of the worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl in 1986.
Other nations may follow suit with formal bans. Some private importers have already stopped shipments from Japan anyway.

At the six-reactor Fukushima plant, crippled by a March 11 earthquake and tsunami, engineers are battling to cool reactors to contain further contamination and avert a meltdown .
Showing the widening problem, Japan said on Wednesday above-safety radiation levels had been discovered in 11 types of vegetables from the area, in addition to milk and water.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/23/us-japan-quake-idUSTRE72A0SS20110323

[Tunkamerica]

1. wtf are we getting milk from japan anyway?

[Mojorabbit]

3. I know, it makes no sense!

We have cows here. It has to cost a good deal to import milk from halfway across the world! There has to be something I am missing. Maybe canned milk? I don't know.

[Duer 157099]

5. Kobe milk?

:shrug:

[Journeyman]

6. Is this perhaps a ban on anything manufactured using this tainted milk?. . .

Yes, we have our own cows, but we import certain baked goods and other assorted foodstuffs that would use local Japanese dairy products.

[madmax]

2. Nuclear zone?

I don't want anything from Japan. Period. Already contending with shit from China. :mad:

[jtuck004]

4. A lot of milk powder available from there. Easy to re-label.

http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/import-infant-powder-milk.html