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Thailand steps up random checks on food imported from Japan as the workers battle to stabilize reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. One imported shipment was destroyed even though the radiation level was not considered unsafe to humans.
Thailand's Food and Drug Administration has intensified random sampling of imported food from Japan.
On Tuesday, an FDA team arrived at a cargo warehouse in Bangkok to randomly collect samples of imported fish from Japan that arrived by sea.
The FDA says that due to the nuclear power plant crisis worsening, the authority orders every imported item from Japan be held for checks for radiation contamination.
[Charnchai Uachaikul, Director, Thai Food & Drug Admin.]:
"We will only allow food importers to sell their products when they (have) passed our examination. If they don't pass our examination, the products will need to be seized and eliminated. It depends on the kind of radiation contamination in the product."
Officials say they found contaminated potatoes imported from Japan on Monday. It has since been seized and will be destroyed... but the level of contamination was not considered unsafe to humans.
