Source: New York Times
Date: 6/5/2013
by: Jamie Williams
Two years after the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant,
people are still worried about contaminated food, and farmers are
struggling.
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Thursday, June 6, 2013
6/5/2013 Food Fears Persist in Japan
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
10/27/2011 Panel advises limiting lifetime radiation exposure to 100 millisieverts
Source: Kyodo News
Date: 10/27/2011
Date: 10/27/2011
TOKYO, Oct. 27, Kyodo
A government food safety panel finalized
its report Thursday calling for limiting cumulative internal radiation
exposure during a person's lifetime to below 100 millisieverts, a
benchmark beyond which the risk of cancer increases.
Following the Food Safety Commission's conclusion, which updates an evaluation by its working group in July, the health ministry will convene an advisory panel meeting Monday to revise its provisional limits for radioactive substances in food set after the Fukushima nuclear crisis triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
The current provisional limits such as 500 becquerels of radioactive cesium for rice, vegetables, meat and fish per kilogram, and 200 becquerels for drinking water and milk are expected to be lowered with the commission's advice.
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Following the Food Safety Commission's conclusion, which updates an evaluation by its working group in July, the health ministry will convene an advisory panel meeting Monday to revise its provisional limits for radioactive substances in food set after the Fukushima nuclear crisis triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
The current provisional limits such as 500 becquerels of radioactive cesium for rice, vegetables, meat and fish per kilogram, and 200 becquerels for drinking water and milk are expected to be lowered with the commission's advice.
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Saturday, September 10, 2011
9/3/2011 (Video) The Nuclear Note: Fukushima and Tokyo Japan
Weekend report including testing of Tokyo topsoil (links below)
[Editor's Note: This video is a compilation of the source videos sited in the links below.]
[1] Japan radiation worries worsen:
http://dhaka.bdnews24.com/video.php?cid=2&id=184&p=42&sdate=&...
[2] Radioactive contamination with cesium (Cs-137, Cs-134) from Fukushima found in Tokyo soil.
Uploaded by bionerd23 on Sep 3, 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uziEgRan2G8
Seen in this video is a gamma spectrum, performed with a high-purity germanium detector. In a 50 grams sample of soil (drain / gutter of streets) from the sagamihara area west of tokio (250 km from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant), significant amounts of the synthetic cesium isotopes Cs-137 and Cs-134 were found. These manmade isotopes are from Fukushima, unless there was another, yet unknown incident, meaning the contamination spread quite far.
[Editor's Note: This video is a compilation of the source videos sited in the links below.]
[1] Japan radiation worries worsen:
http://dhaka.bdnews24.com/video.php?cid=2&id=184&p=42&sdate=&...
[2] Radioactive contamination with cesium (Cs-137, Cs-134) from Fukushima found in Tokyo soil.
Uploaded by bionerd23 on Sep 3, 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uziEgRan2G8
Seen in this video is a gamma spectrum, performed with a high-purity germanium detector. In a 50 grams sample of soil (drain / gutter of streets) from the sagamihara area west of tokio (250 km from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant), significant amounts of the synthetic cesium isotopes Cs-137 and Cs-134 were found. These manmade isotopes are from Fukushima, unless there was another, yet unknown incident, meaning the contamination spread quite far.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
8/29/2011 Radioactive cesium in San Francisco Bay Area milk close to exceeding EPA’s Maximum Contaminant Level
Source: ENENews
Date: August 29th, 2011 at 02:39 PM
UCB Milk Sampling, UC Berkeley, August 25, 2011:
The MDA was reduced considerably since the last test on August 11.
Milk with best buy date of August 22, 2011:
“EPA lumps these gamma and beta emitters together under one collective MCL [Maximum Contaminant Level], so if you’re seeing cesium-137 in your milk or water, the MCL is 3.0 picocuries per liter; if you’re seeing iodine-131, the MCL is 3.0; if you’re seeing cesium-137 and iodine-131, the MCL is still 3.0.” -Forbes.com
Date: August 29th, 2011 at 02:39 PM
UCB Milk Sampling, UC Berkeley, August 25, 2011:
The MDA was reduced considerably since the last test on August 11.
Milk with best buy date of August 22, 2011:
- Cesium-134 .047 Becquerels per liter (1.27 picocuries per liter)
- Cesium-137 .052 Bq/liter (1.41 pCi/l)
“EPA lumps these gamma and beta emitters together under one collective MCL [Maximum Contaminant Level], so if you’re seeing cesium-137 in your milk or water, the MCL is 3.0 picocuries per liter; if you’re seeing iodine-131, the MCL is 3.0; if you’re seeing cesium-137 and iodine-131, the MCL is still 3.0.” -Forbes.com
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Thursday, June 2, 2011
6/2/2011 | Powdered milk bought in LA 70.2% above background level
Source: EnviroReporter Ustream channel
Date: 6/2/2011
Quoting the paper note from EnviroReporter.com: "June 2, 2011 Radiation Alert! 'Hot' Powerdered milk bought in LA store: 70.2% above BG"
Date: 6/2/2011
Quoting the paper note from EnviroReporter.com: "June 2, 2011 Radiation Alert! 'Hot' Powerdered milk bought in LA store: 70.2% above BG"
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