JINCHEON, South Korea, June 28 (Yonhap) — South Korean Olympic leaders pledged on Monday that the country’s athletes at the Tokyo Summer Games will be fed fresh and clean food, dispelling concerns over ingredients from a Japanese prefecture hit with radioactive contamination.

At a press conference at the Jincheon National Training Center in Jincheon, 90 kilometers south of Seoul, Jang In-hwa, head of mission for South Korea at the Tokyo Olympics, fielded a question about meals for South Korean athletes and whether they’ll be eating food from Fukushima, an area exposed to high levels of radiation following a tsunami-triggered meltdown at a nuclear power plant in March 2011.

“We’ve already sent some ingredients from here to Tokyo, to a dining center near the athletes’ village,” Jang said. “For fruits, meat and seafood, we’ll only supply verified local products. We’ll be preparing boxed meals for our athletes at competition and training venues.”

Source: Yonhap News Agency