ONJUKU, Japan -- Every morning, hundreds of pounds of fresh fish, hauled in from ports across eastern Japan, is rushed to this sleepy town hours away from the capital.
This fish isn’t destined for a fancy restaurant or a supermarket, and it won’t likely ever land on anyone’s dinner plate. Instead, the seafood samples will be checked for radiation -- part of Japan’s fight to restore confidence in its food supply after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. (...)
“It takes an hour to run a test,” Atsushi Suginaka, director of the fisheries processing industries and marketing division of Japan’s Fisheries Agency told CBS News. Unlike rice or other farm products, “fish are internally contaminated, so it’s time-consuming to check.” (Highlight added)
Strontium testing is done at a separate facility; it takes one month to scan a single sample.
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