JAPAN TIGHTENS RADIATION LIMITS ON MEAT PRODUCTS
March 1st, 2012
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
JAPAN is set to place stricter limits on the maximum levels of radiation in meat products sold for human consumption to Japanese consumers from April 1.
Under the revisions, the limit on permissible traces of radioactive caesium will be set at 100 becquerels (bq) per kilogram for meat products. Presently, levels are set at 500 bq per kilogram for the majority of foodstuffs, which were originally imposed after the tsunami in Japan last March triggered the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant.
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