Recent government data shows there has been an increase in the number of food imports that have been tainted with radioactive substances.<br />According to a recent report by the ministry for food and drug safety, more than 11-hundred contaminated food items have been detected since 2011, with numbers increasing every year.<br />Those that most frequently tested positive for radiation were mushrooms from China and Russia, American blueberries and Turkish hazelnuts.<br />They took up more than half of the radioactive imported foods excluding products from Japan.<br />
