According to Yonhap News Agency on January 29, the Seoul Metropolitan Government said on the same day that it had added two radiation detectors at the wholesale market of agricultural and aquatic livestock products in Kolak-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, to alleviate people's concerns about Japan's discharge of nuclear sewage into the sea.



According to reports, the high-purity germanium detector launched this time is a precision equipment that can detect the radioactive content of the product within 2 hours and 27 minutes. The Seoul government plans to combine a rapid test of about one hour with the above-mentioned precision testing, and will also have a professional laboratory and staff.


Professional inspectors will randomly selected fish and seafood samples to test the radiation level, if it is suspected that the radiation exceeds the standard, will require the municipal public health research institute to re-test, and timely remove from the shelves, destroy the relevant products.


In addition, on the Seoul Food Safety and Information website, consumers can view the radiation test results of seafood and processed seafood products in real time.





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