Japan pledged to take credible and transparent measures to ensure the quality and safety of its aquatic products meet China's regulatory requirements and food safety standards, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian on Friday.
Lin's remarks were made at a routine pressing briefing in response to a question regarding the new round of technical exchanges between China and Japan on the safety of Japanese aquatic products.
Lin that since the beginning of this year, China has maintained communication with Japan on this issue, based on independent sampling and testing results of Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water showing no abnormalities.
On May 28, at Japan's request, the General Administration of Customs of China held a new round of technical exchanges with Japan in Beijing, during which substantial progress had been made, Lin said.
On August 24, 2023, China banned imports of all aquatic products from Japan after Japan, disregarding serious concerns from China and the broader international community, began releasing nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea.
During a press briefing in January this year, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said that Chinese research institutions had completed the tests and analyses of China's first independent sampling of the Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water. No abnormality was found in the activity concentration of tritium, caesium-137 and strontium-90.
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