Japan has imposed a ban on all beef coming from the prefecture of Fukushima, where three nuclear reactors melted down following the March 11 magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami. The Japanese government is also apologizing for its delayed response to radioactive meat reaching the market. Read full article
This was my biggest fear - that Cs 137 would enter the human food chain.
Depending on the levels, fluctuations and ranges in key food resources this could be innocuous or very, very serious.
I remember tracking the contamination geography of Cs 137 levels in UK meat-to-market, and 'rejected' meat-on-the-hoof, for over four years after Chernobyl. The residues are still there in the soils, though increasingly bound up in soil chemistrys.
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThis was my biggest fear - that Cs 137 would enter the human food chain.
Jul 20th, 2011 - 02:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Depending on the levels, fluctuations and ranges in key food resources this could be innocuous or very, very serious.
I remember tracking the contamination geography of Cs 137 levels in UK meat-to-market, and 'rejected' meat-on-the-hoof, for over four years after Chernobyl. The residues are still there in the soils, though increasingly bound up in soil chemistrys.
Japan has a long-term problem now.
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