Comment from Anonymous

There is no acknowledgement from FDA about bioaccumulation of cesium in the food chain per USDA’s website and no update on Fukushima to FDA’s website since 2023. That year Japan began a 40-year program of dumping radioactive water into the Pacific (including tritium and carbon-14 which cannot be filtered) despite opposition from the scientific community, many governments, and from within the U.S. and Japan. 2023 was also the year FDA lifted all restrictions on food imports from Japan! Now Japan plans to spread 14 million cubic meters of “recycled” radioactive soil and materials around Japan, including in agricultural underlayment, which stands to further impact food exports and is a growing threat that requires stronger action. Worldwide radioactive contamination has continued to increase, and stands to get worse, including inside the U.S. “The push to expand the nuclear industry, whose capacity the Biden administration proposed to triple by 2050, largely with ‘advanced’ reactors that produce more radioactive waste, only compounds these problems. Since the Citizen Petition was filed in 2013, Americans continue to consume food from Japan that is potentially 12 to 24 times higher in cesium than what Japan permits to be sold or consumed there. The FDA must protect Americans at least as much as Japan protects their residents to uphold their mission and duties to Americans.