Health minister eats Fukushima vegetables

Health minister eats Fukushima vegetables

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Ritsuo Hosokawa eats dishes using vegetables from Fukushima Prefecture, where the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is located, to assure the safety of the products at a cafeteria in the building housing the health and other ministries in Tokyo on April 12, 2011. The cafeteria started on the day to use some vegetables from the prefecture, such as tomatoes and cucumbers, whose shipments are not restricted by the government in support of Fukushima farmers hit by radiation fears.

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