Singapore will cancel import ban on Fukushima Radiated Food products

[bart12]

http://www.zaobao.com.sg/realtime/singapore/story20140531-349477

新加坡即日起取消所有对日本食品的进口限制

（联合早报网讯）日本希望与我国展开更多防务合作。我国则欢迎日本在现有 《日美防卫合作方针》框架下，为区域和平与防务作出更多贡献的意愿。

与此同时，我国也将从即日起取消所有对日本食品的进口限制。这些食品进口限制是在2011年，日本发生311大地震及福岛核泄漏后实施。

我国总理李显龙今早在总统府接见了在我国进行两天访问的日本首相安倍晋三。两人进行首脑会谈之后，举办联合记者会时，作出上述的表态。

安倍是应李显龙总理的邀请，从昨天起到我国进行两天访问。这是安倍一年内第二次到访我国，也是两国领导人过去一年来第四次举行首脑会议。

本区域局势最近因多国陷入领土纠纷而紧张。安倍本次到访我国，也表现出日本拉拢亚细安成员国，以均衡区域势力的外交姿态。

安倍昨天在香格里拉对话会中发表主题演讲时，表示日本打算在国际防务领域里采取更积极的姿态，给予亚细安国家全力支持，协助它们保护各自的领海和领空。这包括采取实际行动支援越南和菲律宾等与中国有领土纠纷的东南亚国家，为它们提供沿岸巡逻艇及侦察设备等。

他这番言论已引起中国国防部新闻局召开记者会回击。

安倍昨天抵达新加坡后，也考察了我国的两个赌场度假村。日本正考虑实现赌场合法化，以提振旅游业并吸引投资。

 

[chongpangchixwings]

So how come both are smiling then?

 

[Force 136]

This jap PM is a jap history revisionist. He wants to retract all apologies made by previous leaders for the evil inflicted on Asian nations during world war 2.

Pinky should not go near him.......

 

[laksaboy]

Only ban imports now? So what happened from 2011 onwards when the power plants had already started leaking radiation?

Quite irresponsible, is it not? Or is this 'constructive politics' again?


Isetan Scotts Tohoku Food Fair in 2012.


http://boukenya.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/japan-tohoku-fair-isetan-scotts/

Announcing the Japan Tohoku Fair at Isetan Scotts Supermarket! (they seem to be having a fair almost every week but Orchard is a bit out of the way). The fair is from Nov 23rd – Dec 2nd at the supermarket basement and brings goods from five of Tohoku’s six prefectures; Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, Akita and Fukushima.

Tohoku is well-known for their farmlands, and my Japanese teacher had personally recommended the ramen at Fukushima prefecture for my previous visit.

 

[mojito]

Don't be a baby. You can't expect the state to suggest what you can or cannot eat. Our PM has shown great courage and wisdom with his latest announcement. He is a true statesman, beloved even by all the citizens of other states! How marvellous it is that the father could see his son exceed even his own great accomplishments!

 

[sochi2014]

Got ban before meh?

I saw plenty of Sashimi from Japan in Taka a few months after the Farku incident.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

http://enenews.com/japan-scientist-...tterfly-anymore-especially-scary-photos-video


read above article about food grown in Fukushima fed to butterflies..........

 

[johnny333]

Only ban imports now? So what happened from 2011 onwards when the power plants had already started leaking radiation?

Quite irresponsible, is it not? Or is this 'constructive politics' again?


Isetan Scotts Tohoku Food Fair in 2012.


http://boukenya.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/japan-tohoku-fair-isetan-scotts/

Radiation contamination is a long term problem. On what basis is LHL removing the ban

Any Sporean who expects the Spore gov't to protect them is is being deluded. Just look at all of the health issues people are facing. In Spore it is more about protecting the medical monopolies. Just look at how expensive it is in to go to a hospital compared to Malaysia. Drugs in Spore are also more expensive here than in Malaysia.

 

[SgGoneWrong]

More people tio cancer, etc, in sinkieland, LHL happier. Means more money rolling in for the medical hub.

 

[singveld]

when we are hiking on the mountain, flying on jet airline, walking in the garden, we encounter radiation from cosmos.

so i think it is a good decision, to cancel ban fukushima food.

 

[SgGoneWrong]

when we are hiking on the mountain, flying on jet airline, walking in the garden, we encounter radiation from cosmos.

so i think it is a good decision, to cancel ban fukushima food.

Cheers! You should be treated to 20 plates of imported sashimi from Fukushima!

 

[bart12]

An English copy
http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/singapore-lifts-import-restrictions-japanese-food-products

AsiaOne
Saturday, May 31, 2014

SINGAPORE - Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) is easing restrictions on food imports from Japan, including Fukushima prefecture with immediate effect.

This was announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Saturday during a joint press conference with Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, after AVA's review and on-site assessment, as well as satisfactory surveillance results from Japan and AVA.

Fruits and vegetables, milk and milk products, meat, hen eggs and green tea/green tea products from eight prefectures (Chiba, Ibaraki, Gunma, Kanagawa, Saitama, Tochigi and Tokyo) can be imported into Singapore without the need for pre-export tests.

In addition, the suspension of agricultural produce and processed food products (fruits and vegetables, milk and milk products, meat, green tea and green tea products, and rice) from Fukushima will be lifted.

AVA has been monitoring food imports from Japan closely since the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant incident in 2011, and the surveillance results have been reported to be satisfactory.

According to the results, radioactive contamination found in food is very low.

This was supported by AVA's on-site assessment early this year to verify and understand Japan's food safety measures.

Japanese authorities still need to show evidence of satisfactory surveillance results for radioactive contamination in these prefectures.

Import restrictions that remain in place are:

a) Seafood and products from the forest in the prefectures of Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma will still require pre-export tests;

b) Seafood and products from the forest as well as agricultural produce from demarcated areas and the control zone2 (close to the nuclear power plant) in Fukushima prefecture are not allowed to be imported.

All food products from Japan still require a Certificate of Origin (COO) to identify the prefecture of origin of the food product.

AVA will continue to closely monitor food imports from Japan to ensure that the products comply with the local food safety requirements.

 

[bart12]

Fukushima Seawater Radiation Rises To New All Time High
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/18/2014 12:59 -0400

The mainstream media may have long forgotten about the Fukushima tragedy (as it certainly goes against the far more popular and palatable meme of a Japan "recovery" courtesy of Abenomics) but that does not mean it is fixed or even contained. Quite the contrary. As a rare update from Japan's Jiji news agency reminds us, on Friday radiation at five monitoring points in waters adjacent to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power station spiked to all-time highs according to the semi-nationalized TEPCO.

The measurements follow similar highs detected in groundwater at the plant.

Why the surge in radioactivity? Officials of Tepco, as the utility is known, said "the cause of the seawater spike is unknown." This is the same Tepco which for years lied that there is nothing to worry about in Fukushima, which arbitrarily hiked the maximum radiation exposure threshold as it saw fit, and which with the blessing of the government, has given the "all clear" to return to the crippled town. So, for anyone who doesn't believe the official Tepco party line that the cause is unknown, you are not alone.

From Japan Times:

At one sampling point in the port, between the water intakes for the No. 2 and No. 3 reactors, 1,900 becquerels per liter of tritium was detected Monday, up from a previous high of 1,400 becquerels measured on April 14, Tepco said.

Nearby, also within the port, tritium levels were found to have spiked to 1,400 becquerels, from a previous high of 1,200 becquerels.

And at a point between the water intakes for the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors, seawater sampled Thursday was found to contain 840 becquerels of strontium-90, which causes bone cancer, and other beta ray-emitting isotopes, up from a previous record of 540 becquerels.


At two monitoring sites outside the port, seawater was found Monday to contain 8.7 becquerels and 4.3 becquerels of tritium. The second site was about 3 km away.

The story here is well known for those whose judgment hasn't been clouded by bias - Japan, which is suddenly starved for electricity and which has to import record amounts of LNG to substitute for nuclear power, in the process sending its balance of trade to record lows, as imports soar and exports do not, will use unprecedented amounts of electricity to keep the radioactive fallout contained behind a wall of ice. An oddly perverted circular reference if there ever was one.

Tepco is struggling to reduce contamination at the poorly protected plant, which was damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Measures include plans to build a gigantic underground ice wall around the plant to keep the daily flow of groundwater from entering the cracked reactor buildings and mingling with the highly radioactive cooling water in their basements.


The ice wall project is expected to cost ¥31.9 billion and will put a massive burden on the power grid when completed: It will need about 45.5 million kilowatt-hours of electricity to operate, equal to annual power consumption of 13,000 average households.


The project involves freezing the soil into barricades 30 meters deep and 2 meters thick for a distance of 1,500 meters around the buildings housing reactors 1 through 4. The soil will be frozen by sinking pipes into the ground and running liquids through them at a temperature of minus 30 degrees.


On Friday, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and contractor Kajima Corp. demonstrated a miniature ice wall to reporters at the site.“


We can confirm the frozen soil’s effect in blocking water,” a ministry official said afterwards.


The department aims to begin construction next month. But the Nuclear Regulation Authority has not approved the plan, saying its backers have so far provided insufficient reassurances about public safety. International nuclear experts have also expressed concern about the effectiveness of the plan.

Considering the surge in radioactivity in the port water, we, on the other hand, can confirm the frozen soil is having no effect in blocking water. But considering the mainstream media is about 3 years behind the curve when it comes to Fukushima, one will first need to catch blinky somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean before the very serious people admit this most simple observation.

 

[Force 136]

When you get cancer one day, remember who allowed food with radiation to be imported into Singapore. Remember the money faced politicians who sold you out....

 

[johnny333]

LHL is a cancer survivor & should know better. Obviously this is a business decision to win brownie point with the Japanese, the health concerns of Sporeans are not the problem of the PAP.

I hope Sporeans remember this in the next GE

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

more sinkies mati.............can import more FTs mah..............

 

[eatshitndie]

anything to help sinkies to have bigger boobs and longer dicks will be welcum. :p

 

[tonychat]

so how about setting up another group of protest against easing import from Japan....

 

[AttilaTheHun]

so how about setting up another group of protest against easing import from Japan....

Sinkies are ball-less to protest.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

wait cancel import ban means he will be cancelling the ban made on the imports from that area so that means they will be importing again.