Seafood from Japan should be screened for isotope: NPP

New Power Party (NPP) Chairwoman Chen Jiau-hua (陳椒華) yesterday called on the government to screen for strontium-90 in seafood imported from some areas of Japan.
The Cabinet on Feb. 21 lifted a ban on the importation of food and agricultural products from five Japanese prefectures that was implemented following the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster in 2011.
Chen, who is also a legislator, told a news conference at the Legislative Yuan that the Cabinet’s actions failed to live up to its promises of adopting standards that would be stricter than international norms and inspecting shipments from the prefectures batch by

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