On Aug. 24, Japan began discharging treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. On the same day, the Hong Kong government announced a ban on seafood imports from 10 Japanese prefectures and increased radiation testing of Japanese imports, which has been in effect for a week. On Aug. 31, the Hong Kong government announced that the Center for Food Safety and the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department had conducted radiation tests on a total of 1,288 Japanese food samples, including 662 samples of seafood and related products, seaweed and sea salt, and 400 samples of local seafood, all of which passed the radiation tests.
In addition, the Centre for Food Safety conducted radiation tests on 63 imported Japanese food samples categorized as “seafood and related products, seaweed, and sea salt” from noon Aug. 30 to noon Aug. 31 and found that none exceeded safety standards.
