Commissaries to sell Japanese produce again, 2 years after disaster
“After doing extensive research, as well as looking at Japanese data, and setting up a radiological surveillance program at our command, we are able to give assurance to the DOD community that locally procured items are safe,” Kim said.

Officials were mainly concerned about radiological contamination of food procured for commissaries, dining facilities and Navy ships, he said.

“We looked at the data and took thousands of samples of locally procured produce,” he said. “Not one item passed the threshold for unsafe radiological levels.”

Some parts of Japan remain badly contaminated by radiation from Fukushima, but Kim said there’s no chance of food from those areas making it into the U.S. military food chain because the Japanese government has its own food safety standards, he said.

The regions affected by the ban include some of Japan’s most productive farming areas. In the past two years the military has been forced to bring in food from distant parts of the country, which has added to transport costs, Kim said. So costs should drop while variety improves.

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