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Mon, 04/25/2011 - 15:15
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Thailand maintains strict inspections of Japanese food Imports
BANGKOK, April 25 (TNA) - Thailand has maintained strict inspections of food products imported from disaster-hit Japan although official tests on 297 out of a total of 311 random samples have all been declared safe for human consumption.
Dr. Pipat Yingseri, Secretary General to Thailand's Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said on Monday that, apart from the thorough check-ups on imported Japanese food products, his agency has also strictly followed the Thai Ministry of Public Health's notices under which local food importers of all types of food items from Japan's 12 prefectures affected by the devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11, with radiation leaks from a troubled nuclear power plant, are required to present a certificate of analysis--issued by the government or private laboratories authorized by the Japanese government to ensure normal radiation limits are safe for human consumption, based on international standards.
Dr. Pipat acknowledged that local importers of food products from Japanese areas outside the radiation-affected prefectures are also required to present a certificate of origin issued by the Tokyo governmental agencies concerned, and that some 22 lots of imported Japanese food products with no official endorsement of safe consumption through either of the two certificates, including frozen and processed food, have been quarantined until their importers present the certificates to local FDA authorities.
The Thai FDA chief said that those imported Japanese food items without the required certificates eventually have been randomly inspected by his agency's experts instead, with 297 out of a total of 311 samples tested as of Monday have been declared as having "normal" radiation levels safe for human consumption. (TNA)
Dr. Pipat Yingseri, Secretary General to Thailand's Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said on Monday that, apart from the thorough check-ups on imported Japanese food products, his agency has also strictly followed the Thai Ministry of Public Health's notices under which local food importers of all types of food items from Japan's 12 prefectures affected by the devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11, with radiation leaks from a troubled nuclear power plant, are required to present a certificate of analysis--issued by the government or private laboratories authorized by the Japanese government to ensure normal radiation limits are safe for human consumption, based on international standards.
Dr. Pipat acknowledged that local importers of food products from Japanese areas outside the radiation-affected prefectures are also required to present a certificate of origin issued by the Tokyo governmental agencies concerned, and that some 22 lots of imported Japanese food products with no official endorsement of safe consumption through either of the two certificates, including frozen and processed food, have been quarantined until their importers present the certificates to local FDA authorities.
The Thai FDA chief said that those imported Japanese food items without the required certificates eventually have been randomly inspected by his agency's experts instead, with 297 out of a total of 311 samples tested as of Monday have been declared as having "normal" radiation levels safe for human consumption. (TNA)
