“Only good things will come from the clean water that flows in the stream, when only good things are put into the water…”
Notes from a lecture by Mr. Uozumi Michio, Japan Organic Agriculture Association, on December 9, 2009 as part of Consumers Union of Japan’s seminar series about safe living, connecting food and agriculture with [...]

Consumers Union of Japan and the Food Safety Citizens’ Watch are involved in the efforts to get to the bottom of the proposed move of Tsukiji, Tokyo’s famous fish market. FSCW notes that the new site at Toyosu  is an old factory site in Koto Ward once operated by Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.
This 40 hectares site was found [...]

FSCW General Meeting Special Lecture: “Hair analysis as a possible way to investigate heavy metal pollution – interim report” by Dr. Hiroshi Yasuda, Director of La Belle Vie Preventive Medicine Laboratory
Summary of Lecture by Hiroshi Yasuda
April 26, 2008
Tokyo, Japan
We have conducted investigations to determine the degree of heavy metal pollution in hair from parents and [...]

Press Release (pdf)
Food Safety Citizens’ Watch
The Chinese Meat Dumplings Scandal:
The Responsibility of the Government must be Questioned

It was reported today that five people including children in Ichikawa-shi, Chiba prefecture had been hospitalized due to food poisoning after eating frozen meat dumplings purchased in a supermarket in the same city. The organic phosphorus chemical, Methamidophos, [...]

Saturday Nov. 3, 2007:

Plastic Incineration Rise Draws Ire
Environmentalists unswayed by limited tests, fears risks
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Yasuko Ueda, a writer and outspoken activist with the Tokyo-based Consumers Union of Japan, a nongovernmental organization, noted that the government has invoked the Containers and Packaging Recycling Law to require that plastics be re-used as “resources” to the greatest extent possible, [...]

Consumers Korea organized the international conference about environmental hormones or EDCs in Seoul, South Korea on 22 November, 2006. The conference was supported by KFDA National Institute of Toxicological Research and some 100 people participated.
Martin J. Frid was invited to represent Consumers Union of Japan, together with Dr. Michael Hansen from Consumers Union (US) and [...]