Two Japanese travelers were taken to hospital this week with elevated radiation levels after arriving in eastern China on a commercial airliner from Tokyo

Two Japanese travelers were taken to hospital this week with elevated radiation levels after arriving in eastern China on a commercial airliner from Tokyo, the Chinese government said Friday.
  
The country's safety watchdog also said in a separate statement that radiation was detected on a Japanese merchant vessel that berthed in the southeastern port city of Xiamen on Monday.
  
The two cases are likely to fuel fears over radiation contamination from Japan's stricken Fukushima plant, which sparked panic-buying of salt in China and led the government to tighten checks on incoming passengers and goods.
  
The two Japanese travelers arrived in the city of Wuxi on Wednesday night, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, said in a statement. They were later sent to a hospital in the nearby city of Suzhou, where they were "decontaminated", given iodine tablets, and released after a short time, Liu Yulong, the doctor who treated them, told AFP.
  
The government statement had said radiation levels that "seriously exceeded standards" were detected on the pair when they arrived in Wuxi.
  
The two Japanese lived in areas of Japan within 200 to 350 kilometers of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, the government statement said, adding that the pair posed no harm to other people.

A spokesman for the Beijing-based safety watchdog told the official Xinhua news agency that the Japanese bulk transport vessel that docked at Xiamen was still in the port on Friday and said that authorities needed to "take more measures", without elaborating.