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6,000 Bq/kg of Cesium-137 found in mushrooms from Bulgaria — EU-wide food safety alert issued

Published: June 12th, 2011 at 5:57 am ET
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Radioactive mushrooms contaminated in Chernobyl disaster seized at British port, Daily Mail, June 11, 2011:

A ton of mushrooms containing ten times the safe level of a radioactive metal has been seized and destroyed by health chiefs. 

The Bulgarian consignment of dried wild mushrooms is thought to have been irradiated by caesium 137 from the Chernobyl disaster [...]

The EU sets a maximum limit for caesium 137 in food of 600 becquerels per kilogram [...]

[T]he amount of radioactivity found in the mushrooms destined  for British families was more than 6,000 becquerels.

UK Raises EU Alert over Radioactive Bulgarian Mushrooms, Sofia News Agency, June 11, 2011:

[...] Initially, it was thought the mushrooms have been irradiated d by the Fukushima NPP disaster [...]

The UK Food Standards Agency has reported it has issued an EU-wide food safety alert relating to the case. [...]

Published: June 12th, 2011 at 5:57 am ET
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57 comments to 6,000 Bq/kg of Cesium-137 found in mushrooms from Bulgaria — EU-wide food safety alert issued

  • milk and cheese milk and cheese
    June 12, 2011 at 6:24 am

    The warning is a little late. When I lived in Germany in the late eighties, I was warned to eat no mushrooms from eastern Europe; everyone knew that they were heavily contaminated from the Chernobyl explosion. Nuts from southern Europe were also contaminated. What are people supposed to eat?


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  • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter
    June 12, 2011 at 6:40 am

    Yep, true. Like 20% of Bavarian wild pigs which are shot need to be dumped at nuclear waste facilities, as they show similar cesium levels.
    Enjoy your dinner.


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  • Darth
    June 12, 2011 at 6:44 am

    When The Other Shoe Drops

    Certainly things can only get worse – especially when the other shoe drops. Isn’t that what we are all anticipating? Isn’t that what we are all waiting for? And this shoe may not be in Japan.

    The USA has 104 suicide belts strapped on. The world has a total of 443 suicide belts strapped on. Hell, we don’t need Al Qaeda for terrorists acts against civilian populations our own governments have made it so. They are the new Hitler’s, the new mass murderers.


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    • jump-ball
      June 12, 2011 at 8:21 am

      The most threatened U.S. reactor may be the already-sandbagged Fort Calhoun NE unit 20 miles north of Omaha on the rising Missouri River.

      The Army Corps is releasing water upriver, there has been ongoing rain, and the Missouri is rising 8 inches per day, being 30 feet above flood stage and scheduled to be at between 34-36 feet by next Saturday.

      The Fort Calhoun reactor by end of the week may be sandbagged almost to the 2nd floor. (Gunderson said that ‘sandbag’ and ‘nuclear reactor’ should not be used in the same sentence.)

      Flood alerts in the Fort Calhoun area affecting the reactor (which won’t be on your local tv or get national coverage)can be followed at the Omaha TV3 site below. Flood alerts are rolled across the red banner, and the reactor is in Washington county:

      http://www.action3news.com/weather

      See the closeup boat tour several days ago of the sandbagged Fort Calhoun reactor in the video currently still on page 2 of the video list, very last video.

      Locals interviewed and asked if they were worried about Fukushima-like flooding problems at their reactor, responded, in effect, “No, it’s different here”.

      See other videos of nearby sandbagging and aerial views of the flooding.


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      • ocifferdave ocifferdave
        June 12, 2011 at 10:37 am

        Those locals dont WANT it to happen there so thay say it wont. I cant believe i never saw how crazy dangerous nuke plants are before. and how impossible it is now to save this planet being saddled by such weak political will. Spent fuel for the Epic Failure of man.


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        • Misitu
          June 12, 2011 at 10:56 am

          Maybe if they adopt a positive attitude the approaching river water will evaporate its excess load…

          {Knut, King of England & Denmark)


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          • Elenin Velikovsky Elenin Velikovsky
            June 12, 2011 at 11:03 am

            If we are just SINCERE Enough, Charlie Brown,
            The Great Pumpkin will Come!
            Banzai!
            Banzai!
            Banzai!


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          • WhatNow
            June 12, 2011 at 6:33 pm

            Yes indeed, as I’m sure Dr. Dr. Shunichi Yamashita would say, “Only nuclear power plants whose staff have a pessimistic attitude are vulnerable to damage from natural disasters.” Such is the leadership of today’s world.

            Now if all the people of Nebraska will just hold hands and think happy thoughts their Tinkerbell power plant will be saved.


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    • Pu239 Pu239
      June 12, 2011 at 10:42 am

      You got it.

      Something like:

      “We have seen the enemy, and it is us.”


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  • Darth
    June 12, 2011 at 6:50 am

    “The EU sets a maximum limit for Caesium 137 in food of 600 becquerels per kilogram.”

    What is not mentioned in this article is that the EU recently raised its acceptable radiation limits for food by a factor of 20 in response to Japan’s disaster. They did the same thing during the Chernobyl crisis.

    http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/04/03/eu-secretly-implements-large-increases-food-radiation-limits-informing-public-13636/


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  • Lee Binder
    June 12, 2011 at 6:51 am

    this is highly dubious in MANY regards, not even that Bulgaria is between 1000 and 1,600km distance from Chernobyl (just checked in Google Maps). Radioactive particles don’t really care about distance as we know. What makes me ponder is a) how come a finding of a Border Agency team looking for illegal immigrants is getting screened for radioactive Isotopes at all – routine, exception, or even coincidence? and b) these were wild mushrooms. That means that the poor people in those areas must have been consuming highly contaminated shrooms ever since. ‘Coz eastern Europeans love browsing through their forests, hunting for shrooms…

    Whoever ordered the screening deserves a reward. Hopefully this will lead to much more screenings in Europe from now on, with results being shared with the public as in this case, please.


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    • arclight arclight
      June 12, 2011 at 7:13 am

      did you notice the article was not front page….its in the science section of the website…had to to a site search to find it….came out on a sunday….no mention of how they tested the containation so quickly that they are sure it was as a result of chernobyl..flash flood in norway and lots of rain…just trying to connect the dots…thoughts anyone?
      peace


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      • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter
        June 12, 2011 at 7:18 am

        Hi arclight,
        contaminated mushrooms from eastern europe have been a problem here in Eurpoe for 25 years now – thanks to Chernobyl. There is still so much radiation in the soil, and it will never stop. I think they were sure this time it’s also from Chernobyl as we simply didn’t have large scale Fuku fallout over here (at least so far).
        Cheers


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      • Pu239 Pu239
        June 12, 2011 at 10:49 am

        It would actually be a good opportunity to bring the whole world together.

        Formerly, I thought only an attack from outer space could do this.

        Instead, we get this approach.


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        • charlie3
          June 12, 2011 at 4:18 pm

          I would prefer to work together with other countries to end radioactive contamination than for our nations to attack and occupy other countries.


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          • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose
            June 12, 2011 at 4:23 pm

            It’s not going to happen Charlie3..TPTB know what is going on here.
            If they wanted to do something about it they would.
            The cover up is international..
            It’s some of the stuff they work out behind losed doors..at the UN.. the Committee of 300,etc.
            Any sort of rearrangement of society is ok..as long as it fits into Agenda 21.
            And they’ll make it fit.


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          • charlie3
            June 12, 2011 at 4:25 pm

            Heart of the Rose, I agree with you. What They want and what the normal people of the earth want are two very different things.
            No one represents us, in any country.


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          • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose
            June 12, 2011 at 4:29 pm

            Exactly.. at present the people have no leader or representation..
            We an election coming up….we have to fight our way( politically) out of this.
            The People deserve better.


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          • charlie3
            June 12, 2011 at 4:32 pm

            Heart of the Rose – elections will do no good – all politial parties, all institutions, have been co-opted by greedy ambitious individuals who serve wealthy corporations.


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          • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose
            June 12, 2011 at 4:37 pm

            Ah..shoot..you took my brief moment of hope..lol
            A third party candidate could throw the vote…except they mess with the vote count.
            What we do now is wait, educate the people and hope for a break in this denial.. that is going to be our ruin.
            Someone on here used to say:
            BUY MORE AMMO.


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    • tony wilson
      June 12, 2011 at 12:26 pm

      clearly more bullshit,bullshit.
      you are exactly correct just happened to screen this batch 25 years after the event.
      good work.
      tokenism showing some action when none is going on.
      millions of shipments everyday maybe 0.5% checked tested.
      still blaming the fucking russians after all these years.
      it is now clear that these so called evil commies cared more for children of europe that the fucking europeans do.


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      • Elenin Velikovsky Elenin Velikovsky
        June 12, 2011 at 12:43 pm

        Right On Sir Tony! The USA participated in Demonizing
        the Russkis, because USA was controlled by The
        Synagogue of Satan, Federal-Reserve, Illuminati,
        Rothschild, Military-Industrial Profiteer ENEMIES of
        Christ. You Got That everybody?
        We helped the Evillest False-Jews in history to destroy
        CHRISTIAN Orthodox Russia.
        So WAKE UP NOW.
        These people did 9/11 to us, and the Goldman-Sachs
        Bailout, handing over the future of the USA to these CRIMINALS.


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  • nomade
    June 12, 2011 at 7:13 am

    The authorities can’t seem to get it through their thick heads that the Ce 137 doesn’t go away for 300 years. The radioactivity in Europe is still over half what it was back in 1986.

    They probably only started closely monitoring food imports again because of Fukushima. How many years has there been little or no monitoring?

    In France customs officers have protested about having to check imports from Japan …they don’t want to become the France’s “radioprotecteurs” because of the risks to their own health.

    Which begs the question whether anyone ever checks radioactivity levels in “normal” times.

    I read a paper in a medical journal last night about the increased number of neural tube defects in babies born in Turkey after Chernobyl. They concluded that as the increases were mainly in infants conceived well over a year after Chernobyl the increase wasn’t due to Chernobyl.

    I kid you not…

    Presumably people with PhDs writing papers on the radiological effects of Chernobyl have a measurable IQ but it really doesn’t show much.


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  • arclight arclight
    June 12, 2011 at 7:29 am

    oh and there is no online report on this at the food standards agency that i could find oh and im so cancelling my tv license as the bbc havent any article about this….if its old news about chernobyl you would think it might be worth a line…something like this…BULGARIANS TRY TO POISON BRITISH PUBLIC or ECOLI FOUND IN BULGARIAN MUSHROOMS….WEAK SPIRITED BRITISH PUBLIC LOVE POLOMIUM…\sarcasm
    now im off to work on this campaign to offer global housing to families of japanese disaster as they need to get away from plutonium and strontium…
    @ asmin any thoughts on a dedicated page for activism so we can try to do something about this and other support (apart from sealing ourselfs in the basement)…peace


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  • nomade
    June 12, 2011 at 8:05 am

    I just did a news search and it seems those mushrooms may be neither Chernobyl nor Fukushima… just an uranium mine.

    “The mushrooms in question have been harvested in an area in the Rhodope Mountains nearby the site of shut-down uranium mines. Thus the radiation found in them is not caused by Chernobyl,” said Bulgarian Food Safety Agency director Yordan Voynov for Darik Radio.

    http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=129193


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  • nomade
    June 12, 2011 at 8:07 am

    It still doesn’t alter the fact that they would not have been detected in “normal” times.


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  • StillJill StillJill
    June 12, 2011 at 12:10 pm

    Baking soda, baking soda, baking soda,…there IS A FUNGUS AMONG US!


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  • blackmoon
    June 12, 2011 at 1:10 pm

    A Weaponized World!

    PLEASE VIEW THIS VIDEO, and pass the info on to your family & friends. Go to the websites listed and PUSH BACK, by signing the petitions.

    We are in A WAR FOR OUR LIVES:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glNWJ2-c6Ts&feature=youtu.be


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