Concepts of Inspection Planning and Establishment and Cancellation of Items and Areas to which Restriction of Distribution and/or Consumption of Foods Concerned Applies

This table shows the required number of samples and frequencies of inspections for local governments whose inspections detected radioactive cesium concentrations exceeding the standard limits (those marked with ◎) and local governments whose inspections detected radioactive cesium concentrations exceeding half of the standard limits (those marked with ●).

The "Concepts of Inspection Planning and Establishment and Cancellation of Items and Areas to which Restriction of Distribution and/or Consumption of Foods Concerned Applies" (March 24, 2017) by the Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters specifies as follows.

"Regarding local governments that have detected radioactive cesium concentrations exceeding half of the standard limits in any food under this food classification since April 2016, inspections should be conducted for three or more samples for each municipality in the areas where radioactive cesium concentrations exceeding half of the standard limits were detected (marked with ◎ in the table). In other areas (marked with ○ in the table), inspections should be conducted for one or more samples for each municipality (it is permissible to divide a prefecture into multiple zones across municipalities and conduct inspections for three or more samples in each of those zones).

• Included in this reference material on March 31, 2013
• Updated on February 28, 2018