KMT seeks to rally support to keep Japanese food ban

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucuses in 22 cities and counties yesterday jointly declared that they would defend the nation’s food safety, as KMT Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) called for changes to the School Health Act (學校衛生法).
President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) administration is failing to uphold food safety by lifting a ban on most food imports from five Japanese prefectures implemented after the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster, Chu told a news conference in Taipei.
KMT caucuses held similar news conference across the nation.
The government on Tuesday announced that it would end the ban on Feb. 28.
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