Tokyo-based Taiwanese writer Lill Liu (劉黎兒) has shown many times
that there is a case to be made that Taiwan has some of the most
lax radiation controls on imported food products globally. The
majority of countries and areas, including the EU, South Korea
and Singapore, have set the tolerance level for radiation at
under 100Bq/kg. Taiwan stands alone in the world in how it tests
for radiation from Japan. Does the public here believe the
government when it announces that there has been no
contamination from Fukushima? Taiwan wants to allow the
tolerance level for food products to be extended to 300 or even
370Bq/kg when the international standard states that anything
over 100Bq/kg is considered nuclear waste. That is, the
government wants it to be lawful for Taiwanese to consume large
amounts of agricultural and fishery products cultivated near the
nuclear waste storage facility on Lanyu (蘭嶼). The radioactivity
in nuclear weapons and in nuclear power plants decays very
slowly, with a half-life measured in tens