Despite pumping radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, the EU allows potentially contaminated fish to be imported from Japan.
Now that Japan has begun discharging 1.3 billion liters of radioactively contaminated cooling water from the Fukushima nuclear ruins, the Tokyo government has dismissed any health concerns from fisheries, China and Russia. And this despite the fact that a fish caught in May from the region around the nuclear power plant had a cesium concentration of 18,000 becquerels per kilogram. The legal limit in Japan is 100 becquerels – so the fish was contaminated 180 times.
By itself, there was an EU import ban on seafood from the region after the 2011 crisis. But gradually import restrictions were loosened further and further. Like a fishing net that gets wider and wider. At the most recent summit in July, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Council President Charles Michel said: “Import restrictions on fish from Japan are now over!”
For Martin Litschauer, anti-nuclear spokesperson for the Greens, importing Fukushima fish is an absolute no-go: “It is unacceptable that the EU decides to re-import potentially contaminated fish from Japan. Given the facts, the EU must reverse its decision.”
Source: Krone
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