FPÖ – Steger/Schmiedlechner: EU endangers people's health by importing potentially radioactive fish from Japan

2023-08-25 14:47:04

Local farmers have to give up the production of regional food because of EU regulations, while the EU allows potentially contaminated fish in addition to insects and genetically engineered meat

Vienna (OTS) – As the “Kronen Zeitung” reports today, Fukushima fish should end up on our plates in the future: “Japan has started discharging 1.3 billion liters of radioactively contaminated cooling water from the Fukushima nuclear ruins. In 2011, the EU imposed an import ban on seafood from this region, which was gradually eased and at the EU-Japan summit in July, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Council President Charles Michel finally sealed: ‘The import restriction for fish from Japan is now finished!’” For the free EU spokeswoman NAbg. Petra Steger “another EU decision without rhyme or reason that carelessly jeopardizes people’s health”. “Despite radioactive water being pumped into the Pacific, the EU allows potentially contaminated fish to be imported from Japan. After the EU foisted insects as meat substitutes and genetically modified meat on the people – without their knowledge and without any transparency whatsoever – the contaminated fish is now making its way onto Austrians’ plates. Meal!”

According to the Kronen Zeitung, the Japanese government rejected all health concerns, “although a fish caught in May from the region around the nuclear power plant showed a cesium concentration of 18,000 becquerels per kilogram. The legal limit in Japan is 100 becquerels – the fish was therefore 180 times contaminated.” For the liberal agriculture spokesman NAbg. Peter Schmiedlechner, the EU’s approach is a “mockery of every farmer who, due to the insane and sometimes unfulfillable EU requirements, can no longer afford to grow and produce healthy and regional food and has to give up his job as a producer of valuable food”. . “We don’t need genetically engineered food or contaminated fish. We Liberals want healthy and natural food from the production of our local farmers. While ÖVP Minister of Agriculture Totschnig – as with every agricultural issue – is on diving station, the population would expect at least the Greens, as coalition partners, to listen to the numerous NGOs who are also opposed to the introduction of radioactive cooling water into the Pacific and the import of the contaminated fish loudly – but the ÖVP and the Greens continue to serve the EU elite, while our farmers, our agriculture and our healthy food production are sacrificed at the altar of the EU with its agricultural industry,” Schmiedlechner criticized the black-green federal government.