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食品検査―インド産フェンネルの種子、その加工品 11月15日

Food safety authority alerted fennel seeds its preparation from India

The authority alerted that fennel and its preparation because it has identified triazophos, a controlled substance, from the shipment coming from India. The authority has determined mandatory inspection against the inbound shipments of the stuff from the country.

https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/newpage_07869.html

 

 

国交省―鉄道輸送統計8月分 11月15日

 

MLIT shares the rail transportation statistics for August 2019

 

The increase in rail containers caught my eye!  It increased by 134.2% in kilo-ton basis when it is compared to 2018.

 

http://www.mlit.go.jp/report/press/joho05_hh_000511.html

 

 

植物検疫―スイスの植物検疫情報表更新11月15日

Plant Quarantine updates Switzerland’s quarantine conditions information

Plant Quarantine office has been collecting information on other countries’ plant quarantine requisites on postal matters and sharing it. The office disseminates the information on Switzerland as of November 14, 2019 at the link as under.

http://www.maff.go.jp/pps/j/search/ekuni/eu/swiss/index.html