Japan has announced new restrictions¹ on food from areas affected² by radiation leaks from its stricken nuclear plant.

日本政府宣布对受核辐射影响的地区所生产的食品进行限制。

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Works at the Fukushima Daiichi plant are spraying water on the damaged reactors to cool them
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States also announced restrictions on certain food imports.

Workers at the Fukushima reactor³ 2 have halted work as radiation levels spiked⁵; the UN atomic agency has said radiation is still leaking from the plant.

The confirmed death toll⁶ from the earthquake and tsunami⁷ is now 9,079, with 12,645 missing.

But the Japanese government now estimates that more than 21,000 people died.

The Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, ordered the governors of Fukushima and neighbouring Ibaraki to halt shipments of a range of agriculture goods.

This included green leaf vegetables, broccoli⁸（花椰菜） , parsley（欧芹） and untreated milk after they showed radiation levels which were higher than normal.

The Japanese Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told a news conference that importers of Japanese foods should take a "logical stance".

A statement from the FDA said that all milk and milk products and fresh fruits and vegetables from four Japanese prefectures（县，辖区） - Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma - will be stopped from entering the United States.

Food and fish retailers⁹ are increasingly worried about the effect the crisis will have on their livelihoods¹⁰.