Archive for July, 2007
Demands regarding Codex GM Animals Task Force
CUJ Codex Task Force Demands (pdf)
On September 24-28, 2007, the Codex Task Force will be held at Makuhari, Chiba in Japan to discuss food derived from genetically modified animals. Consumers and citizen organizations, hoping that the Codex standard will truly protect consumers, are asking the Japanese government to listen to our demands.
Rokkashomura: Call for Action
Rokkashomura Call for Action (pdf)
The National Network to Stop Radioactive Pollution from the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant and Consumers Union of Japan have issued a call for action to stop the nuclear reprocessing plant at Rokkashomura in Aomori prefecture, Japan.
We are making the following demands:
1) We express our views about the actual damage due to radioactive contamination, [...]
Protest against surveillance of peace activism
Protest against surveillance letter (pdf)
On June 7, 2007 media revealed that the intelligence unit of Japan’s Ground Self Defense Force had conducted surveillance and made a detailed report about the activities of a large number of groups and individuals who worked on the issues related to the dispatch of Self Defense Force troupes to Iraqi.
Consumers [...]
Food irradiation: Don’t lure consumers!
Irradiation label letter to FDA (pdf)
Several Japanese consumer organizations, including Consumers Union of Japan, has written to the US Food and Drug Administration to oppose changes in the labelling requirement for irradiated foods.
We are oppsed to the proposal to allow irradiated foods to be called “pasteurized” instead of “irradiated”. We write that these are two different [...]
