MOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- Russia's federal food safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor has banned the import of seafood from some 242 Japanese processing plants situated near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.
In a statement Rosselkhoznadzor said the ban came as a result of the analysis of radiation risks in the area surrounding the nuclear plant.
"Other countries ban seafood imports from the whole of Japan," a spokesman for Rosselkhoznadzor told Dow Jones Newswires. "We aren't going to do that. We are only concerned with those suppliers which are situated in contaminated areas."
Russia's imports of Japanese seafood in 2010 totaled 57,000 metric tons.
-By Grigori Gerenstein, contributing to Dow Jones Newswires; gerenstein@ hotmail.com
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