Archive 2020

Last updated on 28 May 2021

Food Safety and Radionuclides after March 2011

Japanese Food Products are Safe and Reliable

• Request and justification for lifting import measures on Japanese food regarding radionuclides(PDF : 1,101KB)(Last updated on 28 May 2021)
• Japanese Food Products are Safe and Reliable(PDF : 115KB)

WTO-SPS communication

• Status of food safety, 9 years after the TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident in 2011(PDF : 109KB)

Presentations

Food Industry Affairs Bureau, MAFF

• Request and justification for lifting import measures on Japanese food regarding radionuclides (PDF : 1,101KB)

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）

Links – In Japan

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

• Information on the Great East Japan Earthquake – Food

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
• Basic Policy on handling of ALPS treated water at the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings’ Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (PDF 347KB)
• Report of the Subcommittee on Handling of ALPS treated water at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station,  February 2020

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)

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)

IAEA

• IAEA, Fukushima Daiichi Status Updates
• IAEA assessment on aspects presented in the July 2019 report "Events and highlights on the progress related to recovery operations at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station", pp.32-33（PDF：850KB）
• Interlaboratory Comparisons 2014–2016: Determination of Radionuclides in Sea Water, Sediment and Fish, IAEA Analytical Quality in Nuclear Applications Series No. 59, 2019
• 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)