Japan Says South Korea's Radiation Concerns are Unfounded, Asks Again to Lift Seafood Import Ban
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Jiji Press] March 27, 2015
Japan on Thursday reiterated its call for an early removal of South Korea's import ban on fishery products from Fukushima and seven other prefectures that was introduced following Japan's worst nuclear accident.
Tokyo made the request at a meeting of a World Trade Organization panel on food safety, held at the WTO's headquarters in Geneva.
South Korea introduced the ban in September 2013 following massive leaks of radiation-tainted water from Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s <9501> Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan, which was knocked out by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami...
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