Russia suspends Japanese seafood imports

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Russia said Monday it was suspending all Japanese seafood imports, mirroring a recent move by China over Tokyo's release of wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

Rosselkhoznadzor, Russia's body responsible for regulating agriculture products, said it was "joining China's provisional restrictive measures on the import of fish and seafood products from Japan as of October 16, 2023" as a "precautionary measure".

Japan on August 24 began a first discharge phase of treated contaminated water from the stricken plant into the Pacific Ocean in an operation it insists is safe. It began the second phase on October 5. In all, Tokyo intends to discharge into the Pacific Ocean around 540 Olympic swimming pools' worth of heavy water -- some 1.3 million cubic metres -- from Fukushima in a gradual process lasting into the 2050s, according to the official schedule.

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