Harrods has begun selling luxury peaches grown in Japan’s Fukushima region, which 13 years ago, suffered the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
The first of the unusually sweet white peaches, which cost £80 for a box of three, went on sale on Saturday at the luxury department store.
It is the first time peaches from Fukushima, in northeast Japan, will be sold in a British shop and comes amid persisting fears over the risk of radioactive contamination of food products from the area.
The sales campaign is being run by The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), the operators of the Fukushima plant, who are now in charge of its decommissioning. It is part of an effort to dispel negative associations and improve export sales to help the region recover.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was destroyed in March 2011, after a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake generated powerful tsunami waves causing meltdowns in three reactors.
It forced the evacuation of more than 150,000 residents across the region, thousands of whom have never returned, despite dissipating levels of radiation.