More countries halt Japanese food imports

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http://www.indianexpress.com/news/more-countries-halt-japanese-food-import.../766881/

Amid intensified efforts to restore critical cooling functions of the Fukushima nuclear plant, three workers at the troubled facility were today exposed to high radiation, as more countries halted food imports from tsunami-ravaged Japan due to contamination fears.

Japanese authorities also mulled plans to import bottled water as stores in Tokyo were running out of the commodity despite the local government lifting the tap water warning for infants, which was issued yesterday after detection of high levels of radioactive iodine considered unsafe for babies.

Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, Canada and Russia placed restrictions on imports of Japanese food after the US slapped a ban on dairy products and vegetables produced on farms contaminated by radiation leaks from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

Other countries, including South Korea, said they were considering similar measures, two weeks after the March 11 quake of magnitude 9 and massive tsunami left over 26,000 people dead or unaccounted for.

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1. interesting. nt