Green tea exports from 4 prefectures in Japan banned due to radioactive cesium contamination

The London Telegraph reports that portions of Tochigi, Chiba (located in the greater Tokyo area), and Kanagawa Prefectures, as well as the entirety of Ibaraki Prefercture, have been banned by the Japanese federal government from exporting green tea, due to unacceptable contamination by radioactive cesium fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe. Many additional agricultural crops over a vast region have likewise been condemned.

Update on June 12, 2011 by admin

In a sign of the ongoing cover up of the truth about radioactive contamination of people, places, and produce, yet another prefecture, Shizuoka, has pressured a green tea retailer to remove from its website information that green tea from that area has tested positive for radioactive contamination in violation of safety standards, the Mainichi Daily News has reported.