Secretary for Environment & Ecology Tse Chin-wan met Japanese Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries Takahashi Mitsuo and Consul-General of Japan in Hong Kong Kenichi Okada in the present day upon request and spoke in regards to the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water in Japan.
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Mr Tse reiterated on the assembly that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government has come to the view that there’s presently no assure from the Japanese authorities that their purification and dilution system can function constantly and successfully in the long run, and that the discharge won’t pose any potential dangers to meals security and marine ecology.
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Apart from declaring that safeguarding meals security and public well being in Hong Kong is the duty of the Hong Kong SAR Government, he burdened that corresponding precautionary measures should be taken.
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Additionally, Mr Tse stated that the Hong Kong SAR Government will carefully monitor developments of the discharge and procure extra monitoring and scientific knowledge to additional look at the affect of the Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water discharge on meals security, and preserve beneath evaluate related counter measures.
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In case anomalies are detected, the Hong Kong SAR Government doesn’t preclude additional tightening the scope of the import ban, he added.