There is no question, as far as the members of the European Parliament’s environment committee are concerned, of agreeing to any relaxation of post-Fukushima import controls on foodstuffs coming into the EU from Japan. The precautionary principle cannot allow it.
The committee showed its determination in Brussels on Thursday 7 September when it vetoed a Commission draft implementing regulation of June 2016 which seeks to reduce both the number of foodstuffs subject to checks for...