Published: July 1st, 2011 at 2:17 pm ET
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2,700 Becquerels/Kg Cesium from Teas Picked by Elementary School Children in Itabashi, Tokyo, EX-SKF, June 30, 2011:
From Sankei Shinbun (6/30/2011):
Itabashi-ku (special ward) in Tokyo announced on June 30 that 2,700 becquerels/kilogram of radioactive cesium were detected in the final blend tea grown and processed in Itabashi, exceeding the national provisional safety limit of 500 becquerels/kilogram.
The tea farm is not a commercial operation but for people to experience how it is like to pick tea leaves. The final blend tea was made from the tea leaves picked by elementary school pupils. [...]
According to Itabashi-ku, 300 pupils from 3 public elementary schools picked the first-pick tea (“ichiban-cha”) on May 9, from which 20 kilograms of the final blend tea was made and ready on June 15. Before giving it to the pupils, Itabashi-ku tested the tea for radioactive materials to ascertain the safety. There was no radioactive iodine detected, and the amount of radioactive cesium in the second-pick tea was below the provisional limit. [...]
According to the Itabashi-ku official website, cesium-134 was detected at 1,300 becquerels/kilogram, and cesium-137 was detected at 1,400 becquerels/kilogram. [...]
Radioactive cesium detected in tea leaves grown in Tokyo, Mainichi, July 1, 2011:
Radioactive cesium was detected in processed tea that was made from leaves that elementary school children picked in Tokyo as part of their school curriculum, it has been learned.
The Itabashi Ward Office announced on June 30 that 2,700 becquerels of radioactive cesium — in excess of the government’s provisional limit — was detected in processed tea that used leaves picked at a plantation in the ward by some 300 students of local elementary schools. [...]
According to the ward office, the tea-picking class took place on May 9, and fourth- and fifth-grade students from three public elementary schools in the ward participated in the event. [...]
It is the first time that radioactive cesium has been detected in tea leaves grown in Tokyo. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s survey had previously detected no radioactive substances exceeding the government limit in agricultural products grown in the capital.
Published: July 1st, 2011 at 2:17 pm ET
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Well its not a surprise to us.
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Oh boy, this makes me want to break glass. Those poor babies…if they want to poison adults who can fend for themselves, well that sucks, but they are going to hell for doing this to those innocent children.
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I think Japan’s entire food supply is threatened.
Scary stuff !!
They need to test, and test Everything …
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They orchestrated this story to try and make us feel warm and fuzzy. The radiation is then found, and this attempted nice-nice story becomes another screw up that is only more karma for them. Were the kids wearing gloves while picking this hot tea? “Get them out” is still my mantra.
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The story posted way back then said more specifically
that the students were taken outside for part of the day
in the pouring fallout rain, to participate in an old
cultural ritual ceremony of picking fresh tea-leaves and
then cooking and eating fresh-made, fresh-picked
tea-leaf tempura fried up on the spot. It was raining,
they were horribly exposed.
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Poor babies. And their poor, worried mommas.
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Just shows you how backwards a country can be from false wisdom in Japan
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Tea leaf tempura in the falling rain:
this was on enenews archive somewhere as a reply
referring to
ex-skf website.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/05/bando-city-in-ibaraki-had-3rd-graders.html
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Can anyone explain this to me?
From the article: “The final blend tea grown and processed in Itabashi, exceeding the national provisional safety limit of 500 becquerels/kilogram.”
But…
“the amount of radioactive cesium in the second-pick tea was below the provisional limit.“
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they seem to be trying to say that a difference in
picking times- “second pick”- or maybe overall quality,
as in the best leaves are first picked, something like that…
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Yesterday I read that Fukushima children had their urine tested for internal radiation, and some had 3 milliseiverts worth in their urine.
The Japanese had the Audacity to state , that it wasn’t causing any health effects.
Grrr !!
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How about a list of foods that are SAFE?
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spoke to wholefoods market the organic store.
they stated to me that seaweed and tea and all the other japanese products are sourced from the safe parts of japan : )
and the position is standard because nothing on the tv news,then no real problem exists.
and the mantra if it was not safe governments would not allow us to import.
a multi million dollar health food company. that just wants your money and does not think about this thing called radiation.
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many of us poorer peasant types have chosen to
laugh at the “organic frantic” folks, being so careful
and discriminating as they shop at the up-priced
supposedly careful, discriminating produce stores.
We are lucky to have the second-class home-boy
stores in some NM towns delivering cheap,
sometimes icky-lookin’, sometimes questionable,
food for folks without trust funds or Alimony Porsche’s.
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You know, with a little effort great organic produce can actually be found in many places at prices basically equivalent to non-organic. So, the up-priced stores are definitely not the only option – just the option “sold” to the masses most visibly, in the usual corporate manner (ie. Wholefoods).
Local stores and local produce markets are definitely the go, as far as I am concerned. Also, I do agree that the frantic thing of having to get everything “organic” is pretty much meaningless, due to the standards being set by such corrupt government agencies (that we are all learning about so much lately!) in the first place.
From the research I’ve done on this issue I have learned that “organic” means that the produce does NOT have this, this, this and this, but what about telling us what it DOES have in it?
Not necessary, so the standard makers say, as the chemicals that are not in there are the “bad” ones, so don’t worry. Yet, what about all the new chemical compounds for fertilising and so on that have come out since the standards? And what if they are not truly “organic”? If they are not explicitly mentioned, then they can be used and the food can still be called “organic”. Major problem with the entire system!
In any case, getting produce from local folk who can directly TELL you what they use to grow it is always best – who cares if it does not have the “official” label of “organic” if the food has been grown in a natural way without chemicals? Not me. As long as the folks selling it say it is “straight-up” and as long as the TASTE is good, then great!
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Wholefoods are corporate through and through. Having used them on and off over years in California it is clear that they do what they do based on their corporate motives (power-n-profit) alone and barely (if ever) seem to pay much attention to the their customers. They have become “cool” and it is a whole scene and image that they work to maintain – totally superficial crap.
These days I boycott Wholefoods entirely and use better stores that have more local produce and do listen to their customers. Although, I have not yet put the “listen to their customers” to test in terms of asking about radioactivity in the food.
My guess is that any food company (or restaurant or anyone selling food at all) either in the path of radioctive fallout or selling produce from the path of the fallout will likely say the same kind of “party line” as Wholefoods, in terms of it supposedly being “safe” due to no news and no gov’t “announcements” about danger.
It is a tough situation to be in for any food supplier. What would each of us do if our entire livelihood depended on selling food that we know may well be somewhat radioactive? A very difficult position to be put in for any of us. And none of this is to excuse the lack of interest on the part of Wholefoods or any other store that sticks to the “party line” of there being no threat from the radiation.
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I found TEPCO’s official release on the damage from the earthquake:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/earthquake-sets-japan-back-to-2147,2240/
Ok, more seriously, love the lack of tracking of radiation, it’s a high quality coverup I have to say….
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Yamashita effect at full swing.
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Tuna cloning fields?
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If they don’t care about innocent children they sure don’t care about anyone
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They DO NOT care. about anyone. about children. Honourable Japanese “Elite” are entirely sociopathic. This has morphed from a confused and directionless rabble to a full blown medical demographic experiment. Curses on the lot of them.
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http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/06/radiation-like-angels-smile.html#comments
2 comments noteworthy on this article
“CrisisMaven said…
Thanks for that post. The “West” still gets very little inside information about Japan in the sense that we are not aware of local protest or ballyhoo such as the aboce “doctors”.
Indeed the immediate effects of radiation exposure are difficult to measure and the “jury is still out” on the question of a radiation hormesis effect. Simply because if it were true that additional (small) doses of radiation are generally beneficial, THEN people in regions with naturally higher background radiation should be healthier, no? Like Kerala, India? In fact, higher ambient radiation generally leads to higher rates of birth defects and cancer etc.
So in all probability higher radiation around Fukushima will lead to esp. higher rates in leukemia in children etc. However, the real impact may not be seen until ten generations later, since all the recessively inherited mutations will only begin to show when the genome becomes sufficiently “mixed” as to allow recombination of recessive with recessive. While dominant mutations are “weeded out” mostly as they happen and often lead to abortive pregancies many of which even go unnoticed, like in the first days after conception!
This is why immediate effects may seem negligible while the damage has already been done but will show its full extent only when all perpetrators of the Japanese nuclear program are long dead, and after having lived out their pensions to the fullest instead of having to pay through their noses for the genocide they may have caused.”
“Anonymous said…
In a way I agree with the Doctor, but the problem is that radiation is generaly downplayed.
Take a ex, like Radon, they say that it causes cancer, but when we are talking about other isotops, we get earsshattering silence.
Cancer pre, WW2 was a rear event, and after the nucklear weapon/ind started to impliment nuks, cancer rates hav since risen, exponetialy.
We already know that its not Only cancer, I am more worryed about “leser” damages, like the impact radiation has on humans and animals Autoimune system(diabetes is one)
There is mounting evidence on that, but somehow it never surfaces in our dayly life and the media world we surounds us with.
And again, this is no Hollywood film, damages to exposure dont work like a zombimovie, or what ever. Its a slow and growing prosess, it will go months before it manifestes it self thru statistics.
But statistics is just as proven in this case, just another way of telling lies.
There is no way to independently verify anything, that we “know” about the Fukoshima accident.
They are all still lying and downplaying, all the time.”
also this
Professor Toshiso Kosako of Tokyo University, who resigned in protest against the Kan Administration’s policy to allow 20 millisieverts/year external radiation exposure for children which he called unacceptable and unconscionable, gave an interview for the first time since his resignation to Wall Street Journal (or so it looks).
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/07/radiation-in-japan-professor-kosako.html
repost but relavant
“The group said at a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday that radioactive cesium was found in all of the samples, and that one from an 8-year-old girl contained 1.13 becquerels of cesium-134 per liter.”
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/30_35.html
bit more here
“ACRO has experience in surveying the radiation exposure in children after the Chernobyl accident. ACRO’s president David Boilley said in the press conference, “There is a very high possibility that children in and around Fukushima City have been exposed to internal radiation. Prior to the [Fukushima] accident, these numbers would have been zero.””
From zerohedge article
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/radiation-detected-fukushima-children-urine-samples-fort-calhoun-orders-10-mile-evacuation-r
Friday, July 1, 2011
113 households identified as radioactive hot spots
Date is about 80 km directly northwest of the troubled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and outside the 20-km no-go radiation zone. Last month, the government said it would designate some areas outside the no-go zone as hot spots to prod residents to evacuate
Old post nut relevant…qoute from article
“For children with cesium 137 in excess of 50 Becquerels/kg body weight, “pathological disorders of the vital organs or systems will occur 3.” These levels can produce grotesque malformations in newborn babies and increase the risk of spontaneous abortions.
The U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) says, “Both 134Cs and 137Cs emit beta particles and gamma rays, which may ionize molecules within cells penetrated by these emissions and result in tissue damage and disruption of cellular function 4.”
Expecting Japanese mothers should flee the north of Japan as quickly as possible. Abandon the region for the sake of their children’s safety. Fetuses are in imminent danger and are many times more vulnerable to radiation than are adults. “
And link
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1105/S00031/the-future-children-of-fukushima.htm
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Effects of the radiation in kids will be seen soon. I lived 500 km from Cernobyl (not in fallout area, in an area supposed to have lower radiation) when I was 13 years old and I took precautions. In the following 3 years my thyroid became sensitive (x-rays showed modifications to it), I felt more tired for some time, I had some stomach pain, on three teeths the enamel showed some small holes (radiation assimilated), I feel my skin prematurely ages and circulation system is slow.
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you posted before me alexa, that was a surprise… you give us a sobering reminder that were not talking statistics here…my sister had contacts with womens groups in the ukraine and discussed chernobyl consequences with me. ive also been anti nuclear so i always tried to keep up….i was wondering why the japanese were not as upset as us about this disaster, a comment made about the fact that chernobyl was hardly reported at the time in japan means that the japanese have no idea what awaites them!!..thank you for sharing your experience with us! god bless you..
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oh and alexa thanks for pointing out that although you were in a low radiation area that you must have been come into contact with hotspots..thats the real nature of particulate contamination…japan needs to check every square inch of its land sea and air to do a proper clean up, i think that might be very unlikely..all the other countries know this to, so i suspect thats why they have stopped or minimize public testing..peace
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download this an disseminate at your leisure! Then think of the children of fukushima! Then go to google pictures and type in children of chernobyl! Youll have all the facts!
http://www.strahlentelex.de/Yablokov%20Chernobyl%20book.pdf
I got the pdf link from this blog
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/3637
an interesting discussion about the interview with epidemiologist Dr. Wing interviewing with Gunderson
oh and thanks radioactive.eu for the useful limks in my earlier post…
peace
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repost from
Mats
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Malformations in newborns in Bavaria
http://umweltinstitut.org/radioaktivitat/tschernobyl-folgen/niedrigstrahlung/fehlbildungen-nach-tschernobyl-1-79.html
So you will know what can happen, at
74 kBq/m² Cs-137.
That is in german, google translate will not do it right, but perhaps it is helpfull although.
Google translator:
“A reevaluation of data from congenital malformations in Bavaria is a clearly significant association of malformation rates before and after the Chernobyl cesium loading of the counties. However, this relationship is not linear. At low loads itself shows a steep rise followed by a fall and rise again with increasing cesium loading. The increase in the malformation rate per unit dose at very low dose approximately 5 times larger than at high dose. The Bavarian malformation data could play a key role in understanding the effect of small doses of radiation play.”
Also there are Studies for Cancer.
http://www.ohsi.de/fileadmin/user_upload/PDFs/umg-1.11-Frenzel_Lengfelder-T.pdf
“It was found there (Czechya) among adults a few years after the Chernobyl disaster, a significant increase in
thyroid cancer cases.
In Bavaria, is therefore also an increase,and higher than in the Czech Republic to suspect. The clarification of these Question is difficult because there is still no nationwide cancer registry in Germany.”
just seemed the right place for this article peace
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old article but relevant for the stats, though not much detail(surprised?)
“Japanese authorities have been monitoring the effects of radioactive iodine-131 on the thyroids of children in the most contaminated areas around Fukushima, and Nature says the first results show minimal thyroid doses in 946 children living in the areas northwest of the plant. The results “seem reassuring that not much iodine-131 has got into children,” Richard Wakeford, an epidemiologist at the University of Manchester’s Dalton Nuclear Institute, told the journal.”
From the article
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/04/05/6413951-how-radiation-will-change-japan
check out the comments srction underneath the artcle…an interesting discussion….
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the nuclear lobby is upset with us ladies and gentlemen!!
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/07/japans-electric-companies-defend-nuke.html
were causing them problems with OUR misinformation. probaly because it is more accurate and all encompassing that thier misinformation…keep up the good work everyone…proof that we are winning!! peace
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things are getting worse, mow the isreali nuclear lobby arent doing so well
http://nuclear-news.net/2011/07/02/things-just-keep-getting-worse-for-the-nuclear-industry/
i say again…keep up the good work everyone…peace
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the bad news for the nuc lobby keeps on rolling in!!!
http://www.eurasiareview.com/spain-launches-fund-to-promote-energy-efficiency-and-renewables-in-10-regions-02072011/
i am in a good mood now…feeling pumped up…time for a pizza…without cheese,meat and is tomato puree safe…my god what about the base????? awww sod it im hungry and i want to celebrate..
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nice pizza!!
the costs are getting worse!! http://nuclear-news.net/2011/07/02/need-to-test-children-in-fukushima-region-for-internal-radiation-contamination/
Japanese health care system going to crash in the future??
“Meantime, the Fukushima Network to Protect Children from Radiation, a Fukushima-based NGO which sponsored the tests, is lobbying the Japanese government to perform more widespread, internal contamination screenings using whole body counters. A whole body counter is a sensitive, full-body radiation detector used at nuclear reactor plants to detect radiation exposure in workers…….”
Linked originally from this blog
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/07/01/more-fukushima-worries-internal-contamination/–
peace
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oh and this just in..
http://nuclear-news.net/2011/07/02/more-radiation-problems-predicted-for-japan/
shareholders are definately going to pressure the nuclear companies to do something less costly its a no brainer!!
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GENOCIDE
Why doesn’t Obama weigh in on this slaughter of the innocents…
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