It’s worrisome. Being aware of anything grown in Japan is the best option we have now.
They’ll sell it to China, China will sell it to us...
Agreed. When I wrote that it would be used in other ingredients of foods sold in Japan I was really thinking (but not writing!) that the Japanese citizens have either the possibility of eating contaminated rice directly or, when switching to alternative prepared foods, eating contaminated rice indirectly as an ingredient or paste or starch or rice flour or rice milk etc. You make a good point though - we do import some foods like rice flour, rice proteins etc. which are ingredients that may be in made into foods like protein bars etc. To get past import limits on radiation, they may mix higher levels of contaminated rice with lower levels of contaminated rice - it’s kind of what they were doing with tea etc. in Japan.