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Jeong Won-oh, head of Seongdong-gu District Office, announced on the 10th that he provided radioactivity meters to school cafeterias for the first time in the country amid growing concerns over marine product contamination caused by the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan

According to the district, under the Seongdong-gu Seoul Metropolitan Government’s ordinance enacted in February last year to support the use of food ingredients safe from radioactivity and other harmful substances, it was the first local government to provide radioactivity meters to school cafeterias

Apart from the Office of Education’s annual radioactive test of school meal ingredients, the school has provided measuring devices to enable rapid inspection on its own, and currently applied to 35 out of 55 cafeterias, achieving a penetration rate of 636 The district explained that it has expanded to 10 more schools this year after applying to 25 schools as the first demand survey in 2021