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Directorate-General for
Health & Consumers
EU measures as regards feed and food
from Japan following incident at nuclear
power plant station
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Consumers
OUTLINE PRESENTATION
• - Measures provided for in Commission
Implementing Regulation (EU) No
284/2012 repealing Regulation (EU) No
961/2011
 - Envisaged changes
 - Recommendation on the monitoring of
fish and fishery products from the Pacific
region
 - Monitoring results
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Sequence of events
• * Incident occurred on 11 March 2011
• * Japanese authorities informed the Commission
that radionuclide levels (Iodine-131, caesium134 and caesium-137) in certain food products
in Japan exceeded the action levels in food
applicable in Japan
• * On 15 March 2011, Commission recommended
via RASFF to the member States to carry out
analysis of radioactivity in feed and food from
Japan.
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Sequence of events
• * On 25 March 2011, the Commission adopted,
as a precautionary measure, Implementing
Regulation (EU) N° 297/2011 imposing special
conditions governing the import of feed and
food originating in or consigned from Japan
following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear
power station, based on Article 53 of
Regulation (EC) 178/2002.
• * Regulation regularly amended /replaced by
Regulation (EU) 961/2011
• * Since 1 April 2012, Regulation (EU) No
284/2012 of 29 March 2012 is of application
• * Measures applicable until 31 October 2012
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Current measures
Regulation (EU) No 284/2012
• * The measures require that all feed and
food originated in or consigned from 12
prefectures in Japan are tested for the
presence of radionuclides (Caesium-134
and Caesium-137), and attested not to
contain unacceptable levels of these
radionuclides.
• * The 12 prefectures are: Fukushima,
Gunma, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Chiba, Tokyo,
Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Saitama, Iwate
Yamanashi and Miyagi.
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Current measures
Regulation No 284/2011
• * Food and feed originating from Japan,
but not from these 12 prefectures, only
have to be attested not to be originating
from these 12 prefectures.
• At import, at least 5 % of the
consignments from the 12 prefectures
have to be analysed and at least 10 % of
those originating from other prefectures
than these 12.
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Envisaged changes
• *The review is mainly based on the
occurrence data on radioactivity in feed and
food provided by the Japanese authorities of
the 2nd growing season after the accident.
• * The review concerns in particular the
possible limitation of number of prefectures
in the "zone with restrictions" and to limit
eventually the scope of the feed and food
commodities to which the measures apply.
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Envisaged changes
• * More than 40.000 data on the presence of
radioactivity in a wide range of foodstuffs
(except beef) from the 2nd growing season
(period March-September), mainly originating
from the prefectures from the zone with
restrictions.
* examination of the data: attention was paid
not only to the non-compliant levels but also
to significant findings as this is an indication
of contamination still available and a higher
risk for possible future non-compliance.
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Envisaged changes
New prefectures ?
• * no new prefectures to the zone with
restrictions are added (the 2 noncompliant findings in Pacific cod in the
prefecture Aomori and 5 non-compliant
findings of mushrooms in the prefecture
of Nagano are considered not to be a
sufficient basis for listing new
prefectures).
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Envisaged changes
Yamanashi - Shizuoka
• * "Delisting" of the prefecture Yamanashi
and Shizuoka from the zone with
restriction but to keep the requirement of
pretesting for mushrooms and tea from
the prefecture Shizuoka and for
mushrooms from Yamanashi.
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Envisaged changes
Fukushima
• * for the prefecture of Fukushima: given
the frequent findings of non-compliant or
significant levels of radioactivity in a wide
range of feed and food, the existing
requirement of pretesting of all feed and
food (except the general exceptions) are
kept.
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Envisaged changes
Other 9 prefectures
• * for the 9 other prefectures (Gunma, Ibaraki,
Tochigi, Miyagi, Saitama, Tokyo, Iwate, Chiba
and Kanagawa), it is proposed to maintain the
pretesting requirement for mushrooms, tea, fish
and fishery products, most edible wild plants,
a few vegetables and fruits, rice, soybeans and
the processed and derived products thereof
• * for fish and fishery products : also of
application for products caught r harvested in
the coastal areas of these prefectures
irrespective of where such products are landed
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Envisaged changes
rice – soybeans – other crops
• * For rice and soybeans, the requirement of
pretesting is proposed to be maintained as
the harvest is still ongoing and not all results
of the 2nd growing season are yet available
(harvest only started second half of August
and will continue until end of October/early
November).
• * For other crops which are still to be
harvested and for which no or limited data are
available for the 2nd growing season, the
requirement will be maintained.
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Envisaged changes
Control at import
• * For the control at import, a reduction of
the frequency of controls to 5 % is
proposed.
• * Indeed the controls at import performed
until now provide evidence that the
measures are correctly implemented by
the Japanese authorities and there have
been now for more than one year no
findings of non-compliance
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Envisaged changes
Personal consignments
• *Exemption for personal consignments:
- personal consignments of feed and food of
animal origin insofar the consignments
comply with the provisions provided for in
Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EC)
206/2009 of 5 March 2009.
- personal consignments of feed and food
other than of animal origin insofar these
consignments are not-commercial, are
destined to a private person and for personal
consumption and use only.
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Envisaged changes
Exemption alcoholic beverages
• * Exclusion of other alcoholic beverages
in addition to sake, whiskey and shochu,
upon evidence provided by the Japanese
authorities as regards absence or very
low levels of radioactivity in these
beverages and information on the
production process whereby eventually
present radioactivity is (to a large extent)
removed;.
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Envisaged changes
Future reviews
• * 31 March 2014: date when the results of
the 3rd growing season after the accident will
be fully available.
* Interim review 31 March 2013: for the feed
and food products which are proposed to be
kept within the scope because the data for
the 2nd growing season are not yet fully
available.
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Monitoring - RASFF notification 11653-add11–dd 16/04/2011
•The European Commission recommends the
Member States to monitor on an at random basis
for the presence of Iodine-131, Caesium-134 and
Caesium-137 the following feed and food
products (in order of importance) :
• fish, fishery products and other marine products caught
in FAO Major Fishing Area 61 and derived/processed
products thereof
• fish, fishery products and other marine products caught
in FAO Major Fishing Areas 67, 71 and 77 and
derived/processed products thereof
• feed and food, processed from fish and fishery
products or containing fish and fishery products,
(possibly) originating in/caught in the Pacific region
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Monitoring recommendation
• RASFF message 27/04/2011
• Preliminary risk assessment on the possible
contamination by radionuclides of fish and fishery
products in the Pacific region following the accident at
Fukushima nuclear power plant. The assessment has
been performed by the Directorate-General for Maritime
Affairs and Fisheries.
• This assessment has to be seen in relation with the
recommendation on the monitoring of the presence of I131, Cs-134 and CS-137 in fish and fishery products
(and derived/processed products) originating in/caught
in certain fishing areas of the Pacific region.
• Following the conclusions of this preliminary assessment
the monitoring should focus by preference on pelagic fish
species in FAO Fishing zone 61 (e.g. mackerel, anchovy,
sardines, tuna, …) in particular the albacore tuna.
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Monitoring - RASFF notification 11653-add30–dd 03/01/2012
•The European Commission recommends
the Member States to monitor on an at
random basis for the presence of
Caesium-134 and Caesium-137 the
following feed and food products :
• Tuna (albacore, bluefin, bigeye and skipjack)
and billfishes (swordfish and marlin) caught
in FAO Major Fishing Area 61 and
derived/processed products thereof
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Control resuls of controls at import
•* In 2011
•1967 reported results on controls of feed
and food originating from Japan
• 1948 results ND or lower than 10 Bq
• 19 samples > 10 Bq:
16 samples of green tea from Shizuoka (2 non-compliant)
1 sample dandelion root concentrate from Kanto
1 sample of soya sauce from Saitama
1 sample of green tea from Tokyo
* In 2012 : Compilation still to be
finalised. No non-compliances reported.
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Control resuls of controls at import
•* In 2011
•409 reported results on controls of fish
and fishery products from the Pacific
region (other than Japan)
• All results ND or lower than 10 Bq.
•* In 2012
•Compilation still to be finalised. Generally nondetect or very low levels.
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