Published: April 5th, 2011 at 6:10 pm ET
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Japan Sets Radiation Standards for Fish, New York Times, April 5, 2011:
Japan’s government announced on Tuesday its first radiation safety standards for fish, hours after the operator of a crippled nuclear power plant said that seawater collected near the facility contained radiation several million times the legal limit.
The new standards were announced after a sample of kounago fish, or sand lance, that was caught last Friday off the coast halfway between the plant and Tokyo was found to have high levels of radioactive iodine 131.
The small fish had 4,080 becquerels of iodine 131 per kilogram (2.2 pounds). The new standard allows up to 2,000 becquerels of iodine 131 per kilogram…
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Radioactivity Found in Fish as Tepco Purges Nuclear Plant, Bloomberg, April 5, 2011:
Radioactivity in fish exceeding health guidelines was detected for the first time off northern Japan as Tokyo Electric Power Co. dumped tainted water into the ocean to gain control of its crippled nuclear plant.
Cesium radioactivity in sand-lance caught south of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant was 526 becquerel per kilogram, compared with a health ministry standard of 500 becquerel, Makato Osodo, of the fishing policy division of the Ibaraki prefectural government, said in a telephone interview. …
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Food Contaminants, Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety, April 1, 2011:
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What are the criteria adopted at present in testing the level of radioactive contamination in Japanese food products, and the measures to be adopted when some food products are found to have a level of radioactive contamination exceeding the normal standard?
CFS currently adopts the standards laid down by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which are international standards, in the Guidelines Levels for Radionuclides in Food following Accidental Nuclear Contamination in testing the radiation levels of food. Relevant radionuclides include iodine-131 (100 Bq/kg), caesium-134 and caesium-137 (1,000 Bq/kg), etc, which are most closely associated with health risks.
If a consignment of food is tested to have exceeded the contamination standard, the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department will immediately detain that consignment and arrange for disposal.
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U.S. Seeks to Reassure on Contaminated Food, Wall Street Journal, April 5, 2011:
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U.S. public-health officials sought Tuesday to reassure consumers about the safety of food in the U.S., including seafood, amid news that fish contaminated with unusually high levels of radioactive materials had been caught in waters 50 miles from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.
No contaminated fish have turned up in the U.S., or in U.S. waters, according to experts from the Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They expressed confidence that even a single fish sufficiently contaminated to pose a risk to human health would be detected by the U.S. monitoring system.
They also dismissed concerns that eating fish contaminated at the levels seen so far in Japan would pose such a risk. …
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Published: April 5th, 2011 at 6:10 pm ET
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Arw the U.S. public-health officials eating this seafood ?
They said the Gilf seafood was safe too !
Like here, It never really stopped, Satellite imagery From April 1st 2011…
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=AERONET_WaveCIS_Site_CSI_6.2011091.aqua.1km
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This is tragic – this will work its way up the food chain. Or they’ll have a lot
of fishermen on the dole and instead import staple foods from non-contaminated
countries …
Seeing the scarcity of bottled water esp. in some areas of Japan I have compiled a few “Survival tips: Out of bottled water? Drinking water contaminated? Here is what to do …”
http://crisismaven.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/survival-tips-out-of-bottled-water-drinking-water-contaminated-here-is-what-to-do/
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wow the us thinks we are all idiots. some people would eat that fish because people say its ok… its not ok. we need to protest are government no more lies no more lies.
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you know how you can tell the government is lieing????
they opened there mouth.
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We have the best corporate government money can buy !
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EPA Says the seafood is safe
One person after another… I’m having kidney failure, my pancreas is rotted out, my liver won’t stop hurting (VIDEO)
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/one-person-after-another-having-kidney-failure-my-pancreas-is-rotted-out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yZilbj9-YM&feature=player_embedded
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In the Greenpeace video, 2000 cps (cps=Becquerel) in the environment is already mentioned as high. 9999 cps is all what their geiger counter is able to measure: reaching that they declare that people in that area are getting about all the radiation they should get in a whole year in just four days, so 100 times higher than allowance.
BUT.. that is environmental. Someone eating regularly 500 grm (a pound) of that fish is ingesting internal emitters for 1000 Bq, what means 1000 cps… are inside them every moment. Luckily iodine-131 degradates in some 80 days (half-life of 8 days x 10) but if they are eating the fish regularly, say every three days (Japanese love fish, you know), they must soon reach levels that are deadly.
They are always sacrificing the people to “the economy”, what means some big fat asses of the the global mafia.
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