Radiation released from the Fukushima nuclear disaster continues to pose threat to Japan’s food chain as unsafe levels of cesium found in products on supermarket shelves have continued to be detected in the produce, the land, and the ocean. In the past 2 months at least 3 types of fish including Japanese Sea Bass have been found to contain radioactive cesium levels over the stricter reference levels of 100 Becquerel per kilogram. Miyagi Prefecture and fisheries cooperatives are considering asking fishers in the prefecture to voluntarily[!!] refrain from catching the fish.
Contamination has been found in bamboo shoots grown for food in at least three cities in Chiba prefecture, over 200 kilomoters from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant . . . (more)
Nuke researcher, Lucas Whitefield Hixson, has been doing stellar work since this disaster happened – F.C.
And the excellent Fukushima Diary (translates Japanese news into English) has this:
18,700 Bq/Kg from fish in Iidate mura
Mainichi Daily News – 44 Japanese municipalities test school lunches for cesium
” . . . Of the 74 municipalities, seven have adopted stricter allowable cesium[!!] density levels for food products than the central government standard, taking effect Sunday, of 100 becquerels per kilogram.
The stricter levels include 4 becquerels per kg for Sapporo, 10 becquerels for Yamagata, 40 becquerels for Fukui and Tokyo’s Adachi and Sumida wards, 50 becquerels for Kyoto and the absence of cesium detection for Tottori. . . . “
Mar. 30 – 18 Bq/kg of Radioactive Cesium from Canned Salmon
950 becquerels per kilogram of Cesium found in Shioya Shiitake in Tochigi Prefecture
San Francisco Bay Area milk sample has highest amount of Cesium-137 since last June — Almost double EPA’s maximum contaminant level
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