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FDA Adds Bamboo Shoots and Ostrich Ferns to Import Alert
TweetMay 25, 2011
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently modified its import alert regarding agricultural and food products manufactured or produced in Japan. The FDA added bamboo shoots and ostrich ferns from the Fukushima prefecture to the list of products restricted by the Japanese government and removed Chiba, Gunma, and Saitama from the list of prefectures with products subject to Detention Without Physical Examination. All milk, filled milk, milk-based infant formula, and products from Fukushima, Ibaraki and Tochigi prefectures will be subject to refusal of admission due to the possibility that they may contain a radionuclide. The following products are also subject to refusal of admission due to their sale being restricted in Japan.
-milk, mushrooms, sand lance (a type of fish), kakina (a local Japanese vegetable), bamboo shoots and ostrich fern from Fukushima prefecture
-head-type leafy vegetables (i.e., spinach, lettuce, celery, cress, endive, escarole, chard and collards) from Fukushima prefecture
-non-head-type leafy vegetables (i.e., turnip), flower-head brassicas (i.e., broccoli and cauliflower) from Fukushima prefecture
-spinach from Fukushima and Tochigi prefectures
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