By PNA / Yonhap and U.S. News Agency / Asian

South Korea has banned the importation of bamboo shoots and bracken from Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture due to radioactive contamination concerns, Seoul’s food safety agency said on Friday.

The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) said the move comes after Tokyo prohibited all sales of the two products from the prefecture. Both bamboo shoots and bracken sprouts, called “kogami” in Japan, are eaten.

The region located in the northeastern part of Honshu Island is home to the stricken Fukushima nuclear power station that released radioactive materials into the environment after the massive March 11 quake.

The latest move increases the number of Japanese food products banned by South Korea to six. Seoul presently prohibits the import of mushrooms, turnips and other various vegetables from Fukushima.

The KFDA, meanwhile, said that no farm products from the prefecture have been imported since the nuclear crisis.