The Korean Olympic Committee plans to buy radiation detectors to ensure athletes' safe food in Japan, because of fears over the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

The Korea Sports & Olympic Committee (KSOC) is expected to transport red chili powder, the main ingredient in Korean cuisine, along with other foods to Japan, when athletes attend the January Summer Olympics. 7/2020. They will also use machines to check radiation in indigenous meat and vegetables that the delegation must use due to strict Japanese quarantine regulations. The committee plans to buy equipment before February of the following year, according to KSOC's meal plan for athletes.

"Raw materials and food will be shipped from Korea as much as possible, including canned food," said South Korean parliament member Shin Dong-keun, a member of the sports congressional committee. "At this Olympics, we pay great attention to food, to provide safe meals for athletes, to eliminate radioactive worries."

KSOC plans to arrange local Korean restaurants to prepare meals for baseball and softball players to compete in Fukushima, as it is not feasible to transport canned lunches from Tokyo. "These Korean restaurants only handle foods that are confirmed to be non-radioactive."

The 9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 caused three reactors to melt at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, about 220 km northeast of Tokyo. More than 160,000 residents fled the area after radiation from reactors polluting water, food and air.

South Korea has banned imports of seafood from Fukushima since the nuclear disaster, prompting Tokyo to appeal to the World Trade Organization. Japan says the pollution problem has been dealt with and many countries like the US and Australia have lifted or relaxed restrictions related to Fukushima.

Japanese officials strive to use international events to show products from Fukushima are safe. Mineral water from Fukushima was served at the meeting of the G20 foreign ministers in Nagoya last month.