login
login
Image header Agence Europe
Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10348
Contents Publication in full By article 11 / 36
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/japan

Commission plans to extend controls of imported foods to plutonium

Brussels, 30/03/2011 (Agence Europe) - In the wake of the news of plutonium detected in the ground around the Fukushima power station, the European Commission confirmed to the press on Wednesday that at this stage, the tightened-up controls of imports of food from Japan did not include this radioactive chemical element, but that if needs be, measures to this effect would be taken. The Commission at the same time denied, in response to questions from journalists, that the limits of...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS