Suwon Agricultural & Fisheries Products Wholesale Market's 3 Types of Distributed Aquatic Products Pass Radioactivity Safety Tests

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Jung Jun-seong] Suwon Agricultural & Fisheries Products Wholesale Market announced on the 9th that radioactivity safety tests conducted on 3 types of distributed aquatic products all received ‘compliant’ determinations.

On the 2nd, Suwon Agricultural & Fisheries Products Wholesale Market collected test samples from 3 types of distributed aquatic products (domestic flounder, domestic mackerel, and Russian pollock) and submitted them to the Gyeonggi Province Institute of Health and Environment for radioactivity safety testing. The results showed that all 3 types of aquatic products had radioactive materials (iodine·cesium) below the standard limits and received ‘compliant’ determinations.

Since January 2014, the wholesale market has conducted radioactivity and heavy metal safety tests on 409 distributed aquatic products, all of which received ‘compliant’ determinations.

An official from the Suwon Agricultural & Fisheries Products Wholesale Market Management Division stated, “We will thoroughly manage food safety for citizens and continue developing the agricultural and fisheries products wholesale market that citizens can trust.”