PETALING JAYA: The Health Ministry will impose a Level 4 (Surveillance) inspection on high-risk food products imported from Japan.
The inspections, which would be for radioactive content, would be done at the international entry points into the country, said Health director-general Datuk Dr Muhammad Radzi Abu Hassan.
He also acknowledged that the issue has received various reactions from several countries around the Pacific Ocean. Meanwhile, the Codex international standard has issued the General Standard for Contaminants and Toxins in Food and Feed, CXS 193-1995 as a guide for the control of radionuclide contamination in food.
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