Journal
FOODS
Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/foods10040691
Keywords
radionuclides; standard limits; food monitoring test; Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident; food regulation; food safety; internal exposure dose; risk assessment
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- MHLW KAKENHI [20KA3004]
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The study found that the food regulations implemented in Japan after the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident have been effective in ensuring food safety against radionuclides and maintaining internal exposure dose at low levels.
This study examined the effect of food regulations under the current criteria (e.g., 100 Bq/kg for general foods) established approximately a year after the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident. Foods are monitored to ensure that foods exceeding the standard limit are not distributed; similar to 300,000 examinations per year have been performed especially since FY2014. This study comprehensively estimated the internal exposure dose resulting from the ingestion of foods containing radioactive cesium using the accumulated monitoring results. Committed effective dose was conservatively calculated as the product of the radioactive concentration randomly sampled from test results, food intake, and dose coefficient. The median, 95th, and 99th percentile of the dose were 0.0479, 0.207, and 10.6 mSv/y, respectively, in the estimation with all test results (without regulation), and 0.0430, 0.0790, and 0.233 mSv/y, respectively, in the estimation with results within the standard limits (with regulation) in FY2012. In FY2016, the dose with and without regulation were similar, except for high percentile, and those doses were significantly smaller than 1 mSv/y, which was adopted as the basis for the current criteria. The food regulation measures implemented in Japan after the FDNPP accident have been beneficial, and food safety against radionuclides has been ensured.
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