date:Jun 03, 2019
The Philippines has lifted the restrictions it imposed on the importation of agricultural and other food products coming from areas affected by the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, Japan. The decision comes almost a year since the Japanese government made the request.
According to Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piol, the ban is meaningless anyway: I consider the ban, issued by the previous administration, as just a bureaucratic gobbledygook and an overreaction to an issue which did not really aff