Public concern over imported food is on the rise, especially produce from China.
Even if consumers want to avoid imported food, they have few options: Japan's food self-sufficiency rate is only 40 percent, according to a 2006 study by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry.
It may be easy, for example, to avoid products clearly labeled as imported, but many domestic food-processing firms use imported ingredients not well labeled.
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