Friday 5 August 2011

So what can they eat in Japan??

Highly radioactive beef (fed with radioactive hay & water near disaster area) was distributed to supermarkets all over Japan. From what I understand, the only reason this incident came to light was because a mother, curious about food safety (the source of the beef) did a little investigation and looked up the beef tag number only to find out that it was from Fukushima. After that, there was panic -- the supermarket manager cleared everything from the shelves and notified the JPN govt. But until this information was revealed, I'm sure millions of people had already consumed the meat for dinner. Media reported that the meat was distributed to virtually all prefectures.
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(Radioactive Cesium Contaminated Beef)
Areas in blue indicates beef that were already being sold in supermarkets. The prefecture in white have not been verified yet.
This is only a beef issue that made it to the news, however what about pork and chicken, and fish and veggies???? With this kind of lame ignorance or stupidity of the health ministries and food safety "individuals" --most surely the SAME level of contamination is found in all food and water.

The tolerable level of radioactive contaminated food and water, a week after March 11th, was hiked up considerably, -- like as if the Japanese had become immune to radiation poisoning over night. As an example, contamination limits for 1kg of rice (which the Govt. had set after the Chernobyl accident) was 0.1 becquerel, is now 500 becquerel.

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