On April 19, the Japanese government announced
Due to the detection of radioactive material exceeding the standard
Black sturgeon in the waters off Fukushima Prefecture are banned from marketing
This decision broke since last February
Seafood from the sea area of Fukushima Prefecture
When listing restrictions are fully lifted
Network illustration
According to Japanese media reports quoting Fukushima Prefecture, a black carp caught in the waters of Fukushima Prefecture on April 1 was detected with 270 becquerels of radioactive material cesium, exceeding the standard value stipulated in the Food Sanitation Law. Fukushima Prefecture said the black scorpion was caught at a depth of 37 meters 13 kilometers from Minami Soma City in Fukushima Prefecture.
In February this year, the Fukushima Prefectural Fisheries Cooperative Association found that the radioactive material contained in the body of the black scorpion in the prefecture exceeded the standard during the trial salvage operation, and has taken the initiative to stop the marketing of the black scorpion.
After the accident at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a maximum of 44 types of seafood were restricted from being listed, but since February 25 last year, the above restrictions on the listing of seafood have been completely lifted.
On April 13, 2021, local time, in Tokyo, Japan, fresh fish in a supermarket. Image source: The Paper
"This time it was a 'coincidence' that radioactive material was detected in the black squid, which is a purely isolated case." Tadaki Sawada, a staff member of the Guidance Department of the Fukushima Prefectural Fishery Cooperative Combination Federation, told the Global Times reporter on the 20th that the black squid containing radioactive materials did not enter the market.
However, Shang Qi, a former researcher at the Institute of Environment of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said in an interview with the Global Times reporter on the 20th that the ocean is a large biological system and there is a multi-level food chain system. The so-called ocean enrichment effect is simply "big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp", if the organism at the bottom of the food chain contains radioactive materials, it is eaten layer by layer, and finally the radioactive concentration accumulated in the organism at the top of the food chain will be tens of thousands of times higher than when it was discharged.
Shang Qi pointed out that the detection of radioactive material in the black scorpion is enough to prove that the Fukushima nuclear wastewater has radioactive pollution to the surrounding seas, and that the pollutants have a clear way to enter the marine organisms and remain. The presence of radioactive material in the black scorpion is not only due to drinking contaminated seawater, but also because it eats other marine organisms containing radioactive material. Therefore, even if the marketing of black scorpions is prohibited, the safety of the marine biological chain as a whole cannot be guaranteed.
(Source: CCTV Finance, Global Times, News Workshop)
Original title: Latest! The fish was detected to be radioactive in excess of the standard and was urgently removed from the shelves ↘
Edited by Shi Shangjing