EC Reviews Measures on Imports from Japan

By CnAgri2012-10-23 19:21:52 Print

Experts meeting in the European Commission's Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health have endorsed a proposal to revise rules on import conditions of food and feed originating from Japan following the Fukushima nuclear accident. Existing restrictions for food and feed imports coming from the prefecture Fukushima are maintained whereas control measures have been eased for several other prefectures.

For Fukushima prefecture, the existing measures applying to all food and feed, with the exception of alcoholic beverages, are maintained until March 2014.

Based on over 40,000 samples of products harvested in the second growing season after the nuclear accident, the restrictive measures in place have been eased for 11 prefectures.

For the control at import, a reduction of the frequency of controls to five per cent will apply. Based on the monitoring results from the 2013 growing season, it is foreseen to undertake a review of these measures shortly before March 2014.