As of March 11, Tradex Foods International will no longer test Chinese seafood products for radiation, bringing an end to a program it introduced last March after the nuclear crisis in Japan.
The Victoria, British Columbia, company said it found no high levels of radioactive materials in the raw material or in the fresh water used at production facilities that it had tested. Testing was conducted by accredited labs authorized by the China Government Inspection Bureau. The labs provided analysis to a detection level of 0.5 becquerel per kilogram (Japan set a legal limit of 2,000 becquerel per kilogram for seafood).
Information provided by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency also confirmed that seafood caught in Japanese waters and in nearby U.S. and Canadian waters is safe for human consumption.
