Comment from Vikram Sikand
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Summary: The Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (Citizens for Health) supports the petition calling for federal oversight and action regarding radioactive wastewater from Fukushima. They argue that there is a lack of transparency, testing, and labeling for Japanese food imports, posing a public health threat to US consumers.
Radioactive contamination stands to get worse due to planned ongoing releases of radioactive wastewater from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean. Despite this, there are currently no binding FDA standards, very little testing or monitoring that has been made public, a lack of transparency about any such testing, and no labeling or other information available to US consumers about radioactivity in their food that can guide their choices. Food from Japan that exceeds Japan's radioactivity standards and can't be sold there is nonetheless sold and served to US consumers here and to US service men and women overseas. Congress can and should use its oversight of the FDA and other powers to confront and ameliorate this growing public health threat.