Reference

Last updated on 24 September 2021

Food Safety and Radionuclides after March 2011 

Japanese Food Products are Safe and Reliable

• Request and justification for lifting the import measures on Japanese food regarding radionuclides(PDF : 981KB)(Last updated on 22 September 2021)
• Japanese Food Products are Safe and Reliable（PDF：115KB）

WTO-SPS communication

• Status of food safety, 10 years after the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Station Accident in 2011(PDF : 108KB)
• Archives   2019   2020

Presentations

Export and International Affairs Bureau, MAFF

• Request and justification for lifting the import measures on Japanese food regarding radionuclides(PDF : 981KB)

Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI

• Announcement of the Basic Policy on handling of the ALPS treated water at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS)（PDF：300KB）

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

• Fukushima’s progress on safety and reconstruction (Management of ALPS Treated Water)
  

Links – In Japan

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

• Information on the Great East Japan Earthquake – Food

Fishery Agency, MAFF

• Results of the monitoring on radioactivity level in fishery products

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

• Mid-and-Long-Term Roadmap towards the Decommissioning of TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Units 1-4

a)   Briefing Session on the Basic Policy of Handling of Multi-nuclide Removal Equipment (ALPS) Treated Water at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, April 2021

b)   ALPS treated water (including the Basic Policy)

Ministry of the Environment

• BOOKLET to Provide Basic Information Regarding Health Effects of Radiation, Chapter 7 Environmental Monitoring

Nuclear Regulation Authority

• Monitoring information of environmental radioactivity level

TEPCO

• Radioactive Concentration measured by Seawater Radiation Monitor near Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

Links – International organizations

FAO

• GENERAL STANDARD FOR CONTAMINANTS AND TOXINS IN FOOD AND FEED (CXS 193- 1995)

IAEA

• IAEA, Fukushima Daiichi Status Updates

a)   IAEA assessment on aspects presented in the June 2021 report "Events and highlights on the progress related to recovery operations at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station", pp.34-35 

b)   Interlaboratory Comparisons 2017–2020: Determination of Radionuclides in Sea Water, Sediment and Fish, Preliminary Report 2021

c)   Japanese Data on Marine Samples Near Fukushima Accurate and Reliable, IAEA Report Concludes

• IAEA Follow-up Review of Progress Made on Management of ALPS Treated Water and the Report of the Subcommittee on Handling of ALPS treated water at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, REVIEW REPORT TO THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN, Vienna, Austria, 2 April 2020(PDF : 337KB)
• IAEA International Peer Review of Mid-and-Long-Term Roadmap towards the Decommissioning of TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Fifth review), Vienna, Austria, Tokyo and Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, June – August 2021

ICRP

• Annals of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), PUBLICATION 103, The 2007 Recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, pp.98-99 (Effective dose limit for the public:1mSv in a year)
  
  

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