Even At 10X Price, Japanese Rice Increasingly Popular In China; Less Cadmium And Lead And Such

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4. And the Japanese rice doubles as a night light!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/05/us-fukushima-food-idUSKBN0KE07920150105

[font face=Serif][font size=5]Fukushima rice passes radiation tests for first time since disaster: official[/font]

TOKYO Sun Jan 4, 2015 10:33pm EST

[font size=3] (Reuters) - Fukushima rice passed Japan's radiation checks for the first time since the 2011 nuclear disaster that prompted international alarm over the region's produce, a prefectural official said.

Fukushima official Tsuneaki Oonami said about 360,000 tonnes of rice, nearly all of last year's harvest, had been checked and none had tested above the 100 becquerels per kilogram limit set by the government.

"The fact that the amount of rice that does not pass our checks has steadily reduced in the last three years indicates that we're taking the right steps," said Oonami, who heads the department that oversees Fukushima rice farming.

Miniscule amounts of rice produced in 2012 and 2013 failed to pass radiation checks and had to be destroyed.

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