japan food safety in thailand

[drkenchao]

japanese food and restaurants are very popular in thailand, now that japan going to release treated nuclear water into the sea, will there be any special mechanism set up in place in thailand to step up screening and testing of japanese food, seafood and dry stuff for safe public consumption? and regular news update by the health authority?       if there is clear labelling or statements announced by restaurants on whether foods are imported from japan, it helps  consumers to make informed decisions. According to an Associated Press report dated 6 July, clean water, not the
nuclear water, are used by TEPCO(tokyo electric company) for various tests to prepare release into ocean,
so it is likely IAEA
examined only the system, 
equipment and procedure
in place to be used by
TEPCO to purify BUT not
the end product, ie the
nuclear water to be
released into ocean. As
such, IAEA is making a very bold statement 
to certify japan to carry out the water discharge      ✔
in any case, it seems better eat or
drink fewer japan products
once nuclear.water
released into ocean. Not easy as there are too many
including seafood, and dry
food like chocolate, potatochips, candies, fruits,
vegetables, mushrooms
and softdrinks, even
ramen, oysters, scallops,
sushi, salmon
In short, i am still not convinced of
the alleged level of japan food safety,
and possible human error
(deliberate or
negligence)in
administering/operating
the plan, over 30+year
on going non stop nuclear water release into ocean             The following is noteworthy, my comments in bracket: The IAEA report alleged that the approach and activities of the water discharge are consistent with international standard (which is actually IAEA own standard), and the treated water have negligible radioactive impact on human (meaning there is still some impact), the treated water remove almost all radioactivity, except tritium (ie there is still radioactive residual in water)

[Tropposurfer]

 

Nothing like a plate of irradiated sushi and Asahi beer to wash it down ... yummo !????????????????

 

I wouldn't worry about it. We are all eating micro plastics like there's no tomorrow ... in the meat fish and poultry we eat.

Our fruit and vegetables are dosed to the nines with pesticides and herbicides.

Most LOS food is heavily laced with MSG which is known to cause all sorts of problems for human and other animals that consume it.

 

Just take the lid off another icy cold beer, lashing of wasabi n soy sauce on your next piece of slippery  fresh (?) sushi and down the hatch and be d@mned with the poisons its laced in lol ????????????????

 

[Jack Cook]

It’s all BS. The water cannot be treated, but it’s got to go somewhere. There is literally nothing that can be done about.

[worgeordie]

I doubt much seafood sold in Japanese restaurants here is actually

from Japan , it would be too expensive and Thailand has plenty of

its own seafood, 

 

Doubt they can actually treat the contaminated water ,well enough

to be completely safe , so just throw it in the sea ,like everything else.

 

regards worgeordie

 

 

[Tom89]

I lived in Japan a number of years. Even a lot of the seafood served in Japan wasn't caught in Japanese waters.

[Stocky]

3 hours ago, Tropposurfer said:

Most LOS food is heavily laced with MSG which is known to cause all sorts of problems for human and other animals that consume it.

Untrue, current research suggests there's no evidence of harm with MSG, the US FDA says:

"The FDA considers the addition of MSG to foods to be “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS). Although many people identify themselves as sensitive to MSG, in studies with such individuals given MSG or a placebo, scientists have not been able to consistently trigger reactions."

 

https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-petitions/questions-and-answers-monosodium-glutamate-msg

[swm59nj]

The health standards in Thailand are not good to begin with.  So I wouldn’t be concerned about fish from Japanese waters.  There are other things to watch out for. 
And the Japanese restaurants for the most part are run and owned by Thais. Not Japanese 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

You can believe what they claim, or not....

 

IAEA Finds Japan’s Plans to Release Treated Water into the Sea at Fukushima Consistent with International Safety Standards

"An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safety review has concluded that Japan’s plans to release treated water stored at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station into the sea are consistent with IAEA Safety Standards.

...

The water stored at the FDNPS [Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station] has been treated through an Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) to remove almost all radioactivity, aside from tritium. Before discharging, Japan will dilute the water to bring the tritium to below regulatory standards.

...

The IAEA‘s safety review will continue during the discharge phase. The Agency will also have a continuous on-site presence and provide live online monitoring on its website from the discharge facility."

 

(more)

 

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/iaea-finds-japans-plans-to-release-treated-water-into-the-sea-at-fukushima-consistent-with-international-safety-standards

 

Another example of why, IMHO, nuclear power is a fundamentally unsafe power source for the planet as the technology exists today... Because humans have shown a track record of failing to adequately plan for and cope with all nuclear plant problems, and the consequences have been catastrophic (e.g. Chernobyl & Fukushima). Thirty-seven years after its meltdown, the area around the Chernobyl plant remains uninhabitable.

 

"The Chernobyl disaster^[a] was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.^[1] Called the world's worst-ever civil nuclear incident,^[2] it is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven—the maximum severity—on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. The initial emergency response, together with later decontamination of the environment, involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated 18 billion roubles—roughly US $68 billion in 2019, adjusted for inflation.^[3]"

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

 

 

 

Edited July 14, 2023 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Stocky]

8 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Another example of why, IMHO, nuclear power is a fundamentally unsafe power source for the planet as the technology exists today... Because humans have shown a track record of failing to adequately plan for and cope with all nuclear plant problems, and the consequences have been catastrophic (e.g. Chernobyl & Fukushima). Thirty-seven years after its meltdown, the area around the Chernobyl plant remains uninhabitable.

There are far better fail safe designs available that use passive nuclear safety systems which require no active intervention to make safe. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

1 minute ago, Stocky said:

There are far better fail safe designs available that use passive nuclear safety systems which require no active intervention to make safe. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.

There's always going to be the human element for misjudgment and failure...somewhere in the process... as Chernobyl and Fukushima demonstrated. Not to mention ending up with nuclear plants stuck in the midst of war zones.

 

 

[novacova]

Don’t eat food from Japan and hide from the sun, you’ll be fine.

[geisha]

5 hours ago, Stocky said:

Untrue, current research suggests there's no evidence of harm with MSG, the US FDA says:

"The FDA considers the addition of MSG to foods to be “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS). Although many people identify themselves as sensitive to MSG, in studies with such individuals given MSG or a placebo, scientists have not been able to consistently trigger reactions."

 

https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-petitions/questions-and-answers-monosodium-glutamate-msg

It’s only a problem if you eat lots of it, same as salt.

[geisha]

4 hours ago, swm59nj said:

The health standards in Thailand are not good to begin with.  So I wouldn’t be concerned about fish from Japanese waters.  There are other things to watch out for. 
And the Japanese restaurants for the most part are run and owned by Thais. Not Japanese 

Quite agree, the restaurant food hygiene is a bit lacking in Thailand. Seen some things that make my stomach do a flip. One Japanese restaurant I went a few times ( owned by Thai family) had little square plates with ready cut up raw chicken stacked in the heat. Probably the same as all other meats and seafood/ fish. I stopped eating there after that. Another terrible habit of Thais, is re - freezing frozen food that’s been defrosted. I’ve been to Japan , it looks a lot cleaner than Thailand , and the restaurants take hygiene very seriously. I have a good nose for that. Also, I’m,quite sure that most of the products are locally sourced in Thailand. You can also get food poisoning anywhere, even if the restaurant is a well known expensive one.  

[clearance]

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/world/asia-pacific/20230623-118053/

But no one is asking about Chinese seafood safety...

[samuttodd]

Immediately following the triple meltdown, The US EPA simply raised the acceptable levels of radioactive exposure rather than letting people know that the former levels had been done away with all together.   (Because they are no longer obtainable with the ongoing meltdown.)  This has not improved things in the Fukushima area as we do not currently have the technology to deal with it.   Hopefully someday we will,   until then the "new" acceptable exposures will stand.      The EPA knew that if they didn't  alter the acceptable limits,  then people would panic and they might have to do something to address the situation.   What they chose to do was criminal in my opinion.

[mrwebb8825]

Isn't this the premise on which Godzilla is based? ????