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MOSCOW, April 1 (Reuters) - Russia may ban seafood from areas near Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant over fears of radiation contamination, its food safety body said on April 1.

Russia is "studying the situation at 300 Japanese fish processing plants in the danger zone" and is likely to restrict imports from more than 200 of them soon, Rosselkhoznadzor chief Sergei Dankvert said, according to the Itar-Tass news agency.

Russia imported 57,000 tonnes of seafood from Japan last year, said Dankvert.

Food makes up 1 percent of Japanese exports, according to World Bank data. Japan has stopped shipments of vegetables and milk from near the crippled Fukushima reactors in the country’s northeast.