Intake restriction on vegetables

Intake restriction on vegetables

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on March 23, 2011, shows spinach and other leaf vegetables at a grocery store in Tokyo with clear indications of Kanagawa as area of production. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan instructed Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato the same day to ask consumers nationwide not to eat certain kinds of vegetable harvested in his prefecture for now after radioactive materials far exceeding legal limits were found in 11 types of vegetable grown in Fukushima, where a troubled nuclear plant is located.

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