Canada wants animal feed safety confirmation from Japan, radiation testing started

Imports from Japan concerning food and animal feed has become a concern for Canada. The country is calling for tighter measures to be carried out on products from affected areas in Japan, in the midst of the country’s nuclear disaster.  Paperwork displaying details on food safety should be provided to Canada before food and animal feed products are permitted into the country.

This announcement was made by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, it stated that the new requirement of documentation, as of Friday, is so that safety of products can be proved.

The areas in Japan which will be affected by Canada’s rules are:

•  Fukushima
•  Gunma, Ibaraki
•  Tochigi, Miyagi
•  Yamagata
•  Niigata, Nagano
•  Yamanashi
•  Saitama
•  Tokyo and Chiba

It has been reported that above-safety radiation levels have been found in some vegetables from the Fukushima area in Japan. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine and International Milling Directory from Perendale Publishers

Radiation rumours rattle Japanese exports

With the radiation problems of the Fukushima plants in Japan still not being solved, more countries start worrying about products that are imported from this country. Canada has tightened its controls on Japanese imports to include all food and animal feed products from areas affected by Japan's ongoing nuclear crisis.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said that it requires documentation proving the safety of food and feed products before it will allow them into Canada. The federal agency has also begun testing radiation levels of Japanese products, it said. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine from Perendale Publishers.

Japanese cows kept inside as radiation keeps leaking

Japan has asked farmers to keep cows and cattle in barns as radioactive contamination of milk spread from Fukushima prefecture, where high radiation levels and fires have hampered repairs of a crippled nuclear plant. “To prevent milk contamination, we are advising farmers that cows should be barred from grazing, kept inside barns and fed with grass harvested before the nuclear plant accident,” said Mitsuhiro Honda at the milk and dairy products division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.

“We are not concerned about the safety of beef as the meat now on the market came from animals born more than two years ago.” Japan has restricted raw-milk shipments from Fukushima and neighbouring Ibaraki prefecture after tainted products were discovered through random testing. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine from Perendale Publishers.