Safe food, healty family workshop

Today we finally had our Food and safety workshop with Wanavi people. Nine people participated.
We were all very eager to attend as we were having many concerns about food safety in Japan since the explosion of the nuclear plant in Fukushima.

The workshop was divided in two sessions. The first session was an overall explanation of what the current situation in Japan was. Wanavi explained to us the contaminated areas, the radiation levels and what the government was doing to help (in terms of food testing and such). We were also given explanations about the easily contaminated food and non easily contaminated food.

The second session focused on what we could do to protect ourselves. We were told about places that were safe enough to shop. Moreover we were given tips on how to locate food from contaminated areas or how to ask for the origins of the food.

Overall, it was a very interesting worshop. It was unfortunate that we did not have enough time to go into details about how to shop safely in Japan. Our group felt that it was the area where they wanted more detailed information.

We would like to thank Wanavi for being so helpful and cooperative.

And thank you to Stephanie for opening her house and driving us around. And last but not least, thank you to Anita for driving us as well.

Till next time.

Motoko from Wanavi giving the presentation