Brussels, 04/07/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Union has amended the list of Japanese prefectures from which imports to the European market of food and animal feeds are subject to strict monitoring of radioactivity, in line with the standards put in place following the Fukushima nuclear incident. The previous list of 13 prefectures (Fukushima, Gunma, Ibaraki, Kanagawa, Tochigi, Miyagi, Yamagata, Niigata, Nagano, Yamanashi, Saitama, Tokyo and Chiba) now contains only 12.
The prefectures...