Seafood from waters near Fukushima was smuggled to China for two years

Customs inspectors in Qingdao have arrested a group of people for smuggling, saying they brought potentially radiation-tainted seafood from Fukushima, Japan into China, state television reported on Monday.

As much as 5,000 tonnes of expensive seafood like king crab and scallops, worth a total of 230 million yuan (HK$269 million), had been illegally imported by a company based in Shandong province and sold across the country over the past two years, the CCTV report said.

Some of the products were from waters near Fukushima, where an earthquake and tsunami in 2011 damaged a nuclear power plant and caused a major radiation leak. (MTI)