Media get first tour of fish radiation check process

Beyond the Geiger counter: A researcher at Marine Ecology Research Institute in Onjuku, Chiba Prefecture, explains to foreign journalists how a fish sample is prepared for a radiation test. | KAZUAKI NAGATA
Under scrutiny: Researchers at the Marine Ecology Research Institute in Chiba Prefecture shows how radiation levels of fishery product samples are tested by germanium semiconductor detectors on Dec. 10. | KAZUAKI NAGATA
Under scrutiny: A worker at the Marine Ecology Research Institute in Chiba Prefecture measures a fish before radiation tests during a press tour Dec. 10. | KAZUAKI NAGATA
On ice: Fish to be checked for radiation are delivered to Marine Ecology Research Institute in Chiba Prefecture on the morning of Dec. 10. | KAZUAKI NAGATA

by Kazuaki Nagata
Staff Writer

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Dec 17, 2013

With the continued flow of radioactive water into the sea from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 plant, consumers at home and abroad are concerned about the safety of seafood around Japan.

To ease such concerns and demonstrate how fisheries products are being monitored, the Fisheries Agency held a media tour last week to a research facility in Onjuku, Chiba Prefecture, that attracted 36 participants, most of them foreign journalists and embassy officials.