![]() The water, primarily the result of ocean and groundwater seepage through the damaged core reactor, has been treated with the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) to remove harmful radionuclides such as cesium and strontium, leaving only the mildly radioactive and less harmful isotope, tritium. On April 13, 2021, the Government of Japan announced it has decided to begin discharging into the ocean the wastewater that is currently being stored on site at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in two years. The FDA will continue communication and collaboration with the Government of Japan to monitor and ensure the safety of food products exported from Japan to the U.S., as it has since the days following the 2011 disaster. consumers due to radionuclide contamination. Japan’s control measures and FDA’s standard surveillance and sampling measures will provide multiple levels of oversight once the IA is deactivated, helping to ensure that food imported from Japan does not pose a food safety risk to U.S. Now, after an extensive analysis of Japan’s robust control measures that include decontamination, monitoring and enforcement after reviewing the results of 10 years of sampling food products from Japan and after determining a very low risk to American consumers from radioactive contaminated foods imported from Japan, FDA has decided that the IA is no longer necessary to protect public health and therefore should be deactivated. The IA was designed to match Japan’s restrictions at the prefecture level. In the wake of the disaster, the Government of Japan determined that certain food products in affected prefectures were not fit for human consumption, due to the public health risk associated with radionuclide contamination and prohibited those food products from sale (both within Japan and for export).įDA responded by issuing the IA, “Detention Without Physical Examination of Products from Japan due to Radionuclide Contamination.” The basis for the IA is section 801(a)(2) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which states that FDA-regulated products are subject to refusal and will be refused admission into the United States if the products appear to be forbidden or restricted for sale in the country in which they were produced or from which they were exported. ![]() The force of the tsunami destroyed a great deal of the infrastructure along portions of the Japanese coast, including the Fukushima plant, and damage to the plant released radiological contamination to the surrounding areas. On March 11, 2011, a 9-magnitude earthquake triggering an approximately 40-foot tsunami struck the Pacific Coast of Japan. state) located near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant since 2011. Today FDA is deactivating Import Alert #99-33 (IA) that has targeted certain food products from Japanese prefectures (Japan’s equivalent of a U.S.
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