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The Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority (AVA) has suspended with immediate effect, the import of milk and milk products, fruits and vegetables, seafood and meat from Japan's Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma prefectures.

This comes as a precautionary measure in light of recent developments in Japan.

AVA said it has received information that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has detected high radioactivity levels in raw milk and vegetables from the four prefectures.

Japan's health ministry said on Wednesday it found radioactivity drastically exceeding legal limits set under Japan's food sanitation law, in 11 kinds of vegetable grown near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.

The ministry added that if people ate 100 grams (four ounces) a day of the vegetable for about 10 days, they would ingest half the amount of radiation typically received from the natural environment in a year. 

The Japanese government has ordered a stop on the sale of raw milk and certain types of vegetables from the affected prefectures of Fukushima and Ibaraki.

AVA said the suspension is in line with the precautionary approach adopted by other countries such as the US and Australia.

Meanwhile, AVA said it would continue to closely monitor and test imports of food from Japan.

AVA said the public can visit the Japan earthquake microsite for latest updates and information from the authorities.

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