Following up the nuclear accident to the Fukushima plant in Japan, the Italian Ministry of Health has adopted an order that urges BIPs (Border Inspection Posts) and USMAFs (Offices of Maritime, Air and Border Sanitation) to tighten controls at the frontiers with regard to the products of both animal and not animal origin originating from the areas located in proximity of the nuclear reactor. Such order establishes that these products can be imported only if accompanied by documents prooving that their production and packaging have been carried out before the 11 March 2011. If this condition is missing, or in the case of food products manufactured after the 11 March 2011, the above offices will temporary block the importation, taking a sample of the goods, to be sent to laboratory for analisys, whose results must certify that they do not exceed the minimal levels of radioactivity. Similar provisions have been adopted by other EU member States, like France and Belgium.
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