Fish in the waters of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, banned from listing due to excessive radioactive substances
Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, April 19 (Reporter Jiang Qiaomei) The Japanese government announced on the 19th that the black scorpionfish in the waters of Fukushima Prefecture was banned from listing due to the detection of radioactive substances exceeding the standard.
This decision breaks the situation that the restrictions on the marketing of seafood in Fukushima prefecture waters were lifted in February last year.
According to Japanese media citing sources from Fukushima Prefecture, a black raccoon caught in the waters of Fukushima Prefecture on the 1st of this month was detected with 270 becquerel radioactive cesium, which exceeded the standard value prescribed by the Food Sanitation Law.
Fukushima Prefecture said that this black scorpionfish was caught at a depth of 37 meters, 13 kilometers from Minamisoma City, Fukushima Prefecture.
In February of this year, the Fukushima Prefecture Fisheries Cooperative Association found that the radioactive substances contained in the black scorpionfish in the county exceeded the standard during the trial fishing operation, and it has voluntarily stopped the black scorpionfish from listing.
After the Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, up to 44 kinds of seafood were restricted from listing. However, since February 25 last year, the above-mentioned restrictions on the listing of seafood were completely lifted.