(Japan) Stop claiming food is safe, ministry told

[kristopher]

Stop claiming food is safe, ministry told
Kyodo

Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto has committed an about-face on policy by telling his ministry to refrain from vouching for the safety of Japanese food.

The ministry stance changed after radiation-tainted beef was found to have been sold to consumers nationwide, sources said.

The contaminated meat is coming from cattle that were fed rice straw contaminated with cesium isotopes ejected by the disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

To handle surging concerns abroad about the food supply, the Foreign Ministry told embassies and other diplomatic offices overseas to brief local authorities, importers and media organizations on measures the government is taking to prevent contaminated food from making it into public distribution channels.

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[madokie]

1. You know If the nuclear industry would insist that everyone be told the truth about any and all

things nuclear they might not have such a bad name throughout the world. I guess when they made the decision at the beginning that they were going to withhold as much as they could from us and lie to us about the rest it left no where to go since they were already painted into a corner.
I'll be happy when this dangerous and failed attempt at providing us electrical power is over

rec