Japanese households and companies waste about 19m tons of food per year, and of that, about 6m tons is edible, according to an estimate by the Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry.

日本农林水产省的数据显示，日本家庭和企业每年约浪费掉1900万吨的食物，其中大约600万吨是可食用的。

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This is the website of Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries.

这是丹麦食品、农业和渔业部的网站。

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"We never dreamed we'd overcome the wall around domestic growers, " says Tatsuo Horiuchi, representative director of Dole Japan and the only foreign company official advising the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on farm law revisions.

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But, despite being no stranger to foot-and-mouth - he worked alongside the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food during the 1967 outbreak - even he has been taken by surprise at the virulence of the latest outbreak.

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Thomlinson, who was working for the then Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, found the work distressing.

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