2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Canned and frozen fish, which was caught in the waters of the radioactive zone around the Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima, which collapsed a few years ago, is freely sold in the trade network in our country.
Whether the fish from which the canned fish is made on the shelf in the store or the frozen fish fillets that you can take out of the freezer have been caught in the Fukushima area, you can find out by checking exactly where it was caught.
Thus e.g. Riga sprats, which are said to have been produced in the Latvian capital Riga and sell for about BGN 6 per jar, were actually caught in Japanese waters around Fukushima.
Worldwide, fishing zones are divided and numbered, and it is the responsibility of producers to indicate on the labels not only the place of production of the can, but also the place where the fish is caught.
The radioactive water around the Fukushima nuclear power plant falls in zone 61, which is marked on the labels with the abbreviation FAO61.
A brief reference to the label of frozen salmon shows that this fish was also caught in the area in question.
In the commercial network you can even find fish semi-finished products such as fish sticks in a semi-finished form for cooking, which are again caught in radioactive waters.
The list is full of canned fish, native production, which you would never think to check.
Even domestic producers use mackerel, zargan and others. - fish species], caught in the area of the damaged nuclear power plant, which are offered as domestic production, because in our country their processing has been carried out.
Earlier this year, a number of Japanese media outlets reported that the waters around the Fukushima nuclear power plant still contained high levels of cesium and radioactive isotopes, especially after the last leaks in May 2014.
At the same time, the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency commented that the fish sold on the market in our country was caught in China and not in Japan in the area of the damaged power plant.
The experts of the BFSA are adamant that there is no danger of the presence of radioactive foods in local stores, as in our country the production of canned and semi-finished products with fish caught in areas with high radiation is not allowed.
However, the agency clarified that they have no practice of checking the level of radiation of the products used for production, because all ocean delicacies destined for the member states of the European Union are checked in the exporting countries.
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