日本將會檢查酒類有否放射性物質

Recently the Mainich News reported the following:
国税庁は２６日、１０月から酒類の放射性物質に関する調査を実施すると発表した。震災後に収穫された農作物を使った酒造りが秋以降に始まるのを機に、安全性を確認するのが狙い。
　調査は地域をＡ、Ｂ、Ｃの三つに分けて行い、Ａは福島第１原発から１５０キロ以内の全製造場が対象。ＢはＡに含まれない１７都県（福島、茨城、栃木、群馬、千葉、神奈川、宮城、岩手、青森、秋田、山形、新潟、長野、埼玉、東京、山梨、静岡）の製造場の約４割、Ｃはその他の道府県の製造場の約２割を、それぞれ無作為に抽出する。全国約３０００の製造免許を持つ製造場のうち、約３分の１が対象になる見込み。
　また、品目によって製造される時期が異なることを考慮し、１０月は果実酒、１１月～来年１月は清酒、来年２月はビールなど果実酒・清酒以外の酒類を調査する。
　調査結果は国税庁のホームページで定期的に公表するほか、国内流通食品の指導機関である地方公共団体にも提供する。
(試譯文)
The National Tax Agency announced on the 26th that it would conduct investigation on the radioactive material in liquor starting from October.
It used the beginning of autumn as the opportunity. It was the time to brew using the agricultural products harvested after the earthquake disaster; the aim was to ensure safety.
The area that investigation would be performed was divided into three: A, B, and C; as for A, all the producing area that was less than 150-km from the number one nuclear power plant of the Fukushima plant would be the target. B was about 40 percent of the producing locations in the 17 cities and prefectures (Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gumma, Chiba, Kanagawa, Miyagi, Iwate, Aomori, Akita, Yamagata, Niigata, Nagano, Saitama, Tokyo, Yamanashi, Shizuoka) which were not covered in A. As for C, about twenty percent of the producing locations in all the remaining prefectures would be picked at random. It was foreseen that of the some 3000 licenced manufacturing locations in the whole country, about 1/3 would be the target.
Moreover, in consideration of the fact that the manufacturing time for individual item would differ, in October fruit wine would be investigated, from November to January next year it would be Japanese sake; starting from February next year it would be beer etc, excluding fruit wine and Japanese sake.
The results of the investigation would be periodically released in the homepage of the National Tax Agency; it would also be provided to the local municipal units that had domestic circulation food guiding organization.

Japan is trying to ensure that their wine product is safe. This is a necessary step to take in order to revive consumer's confidence both at home and abroad.