S'pore detects radioactivity in Japanese vegetables
Four shipments of Japanese vegetables which arrived in Singapore will be destroyed after traces of radioactive contaminants were found in them.
The produce arrived on Wednesday from Tochigi, Ibaraki, Chiba and Ehime prefectures, said the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) at a press conference on Thursday night.
The vegetables affected were mitsuba (Japanese wild parsley), nanohana (rape seed plant), mizuna (Japanese mustard) and perilla leaf. They contained higher than usual levels of iodine-131, cesium-134 and cesium-137.
All the vegetables, totalling 144kg, were recalled successfully, except for 200g which had gone to a restaurant.
The AVA declined to identify the eatery, but said that the latter had disposed of the produce.
It said it will destroy the rest of the recalled stocks in an appropriate manner.
Source: The Straits Times/ANN
Published March 25 2011
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