Sydney: Some more countries, including Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore, are set to ban food imports from areas near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The ban will include dairy products, vegetables, fruits, meat and seafood.
They follow similar action from the US which also halted some food imports on Tuesday.
Japan’s food producers are under pressure after a deadly earthquake caused radiation to leak from the power plant contaminating produce.
Both Australia and Singapore have banned agricultural food imports from the regions of Fukushima, Gunma, Ibaraki and Tochigi. Hong Kong has added another prefecture, Chiba, to its suspension list.
Australia’s regulator, the Food Standards Australia New Zealand, said it was taking a precautionary measure that was consistent with approaches internationally.
Three UN agencies have issues a joint statement saying Japan had been taking the right actions.
“Food monitoring is being implemented, measurements of radioactivity in food are taking place, and the results are being communicated publicly,” the International Atomic Energy Agency, the World Health Organisation, and the Food and Agriculture Organisation said.
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