They Will Harvest Food That Should Not Be Consumed

Scores of experts and analysts have feared for months that it would happen, and now it has: Radiation from the heavily damaged nuclear power plants at Japan’s Fukushima complex has made it into the food chain.

1,946 known lethal radioactive isotopes are spewing from Fukushima Reactors throughout all of Japan all the time now.

Bluefin tuna exposed to radioactivity that leaked into the Pacific Ocean after Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi power plants were damaged by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami on March 11, 2011, carried that radioactivity to the waters off California, a new study by scientists from Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) and Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station has revealed.

These findings represent the first documented instance of the transport of radioactive materials in the sea through a biological migration. The study, “Pacific Bluefin Tuna Transport Fukushima-Derived Radionuclides from Japan to California” has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the US. The research was funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

Australian TV Report: Many fish caught off Fukushima contain dangerous levels of radioactive material-Japan TV: Fukushima seafood now on sale.

Top Cancer Doctor: Irresponsible to say cesium in California bluefin tuna is nothing to worry about-You have radioactive material in fish, which is being eaten by people.

South Korea has placed a temporary import ban on 35 Japanese seafood products because of fears of lingering radiation contamination from last year’s devastating nuclear disaster. Seoul’s Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries says the ban is a temporary measure meant to protect South Korean citizens from products originating from the waters near the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Fish containing 258 times the legal limit of radioactive cesium have been found in waters off the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., said on Aug. 21.

The reading for two rock trout, caught about 20 kilometers to the north of the plant, showed 25,800 becquerels per kilogram, the highest yet detected in surveys conducted after last year’s nuclear accident.

Consuming 200 grams of the fish would amount to an internal radiation exposure of 0.08 millisievert for a human. The annual safety limit for radiation exposure from food products is 1 millisievert per person.

According to the British medical journal Lancet (www.thelancet.com) of April 24, 2010, the results of Wertelecki’s child development investigations have re-ignited a controversy among international agencies and scientists concerning the impact of internalized radiation through contaminated food on birth defects.

The impact of Chernobyl and Fukushima-Daiichi is ongoing and radiation still in the environment is inhaled or swallowed, leading to accumulation in the body. One mushroom eaten in affected areas may deliver as much radiation as hundreds of chest x-rays, he concluded.

The fact that one radiated mushroom can equal hundreds of chest x-rays shows how absurd nuclear power is.

Rice

All Fukushima rice will be checked for radiation. With early rice harvests under way in Fukushima Prefecture, farmers are keeping their fingers crossed that this year’s crop passes government radiation checks.

Early-harvest rice was also collected Aug. 23 at a farm in Aizubange owned by a farming corporation. Harvesting of common varieties is expected to be in full swing from late September.

The early crops will be checked on Aug. 25, and if radiation levels do not exceed the 100-becquerel limit, it will be shipped as early as Aug. 27.

After the checks are completed, a sticker with a QR code will be put on the bags of rice so that distributors can confirm the test results. The prefecture is also considering putting a sticker on bags of polished rice to show consumers the products have cleared the checks.

Councils formed by municipalities and rice consignees will carry out the actual inspection operations.

Separately, the central government this year will focus on examining rice from farms and districts where more than 50 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium was detected in last year’s crops. Fukushima Prefecture is expected to have 35,000 such locations.

In a survey conducted in April last year, 14,400 becquerels per kilogram was detected for sand eel caught off the coast of the prefecture.

In March, landlocked salmon in the Niidagawa river near Iitate, a village to the northwest of the plant, measured 18,700 becquerels per kilogram.

Beef

The POTRBLOG team spent $1,100 dollars to have US ground beef tested by professional labs for radioactive contamination from Plutonium, Strontium, and Gamma producing radionuclides. The ground beef samples tested were from a grass fed cow which went to the butcher in July of 2011; the radioactive testing occurred during the first week of May 2012.

The ground beef sample returned readings showing that the cow had ingested radioactive fallout. The sample also had readings which point to a recent nuclear fission and control rod fire occurring within the last few weeks. The results of that testing are presented in the video below.

As it stands now, we still have available PRE-Fukushima all natural, grass fed beef, and pasture raised pork for testing. We know exactly how, where and by whom the beef, and pork were humanely raised. We also have access to fresh beef, pork, and chicken raised under the same conditions.

A large area of Japan, not just the evacuated area, would be considered a contamination area by almost all nuclear agencies, regulators and utilities throughout the world. There would not be allowed eating smoking or drinking in these areas. Protective clothing would be required. And every person would have to be whole body counted before starting work, every 6-12 months, and when they left employment.

And yet children and adults live and work in these areas without controls of any kind. And this situation is criminal especially towards the children, who are much more radio-sensitive.

Of course it is not just the Japanese who are downplaying this disaster. The Obama administration promised to keep the American public informed because they have the right to know what’s happening. If that is the case then tell us if Hillary Clintion signed a pact with the Prime Minister of Japan to allow food from Japan to be imported into the United States after the allowable amounts of radiation in our food was raised.

There is no safe dose of radiation. It is not a question any more: radiation produces cancer, and the evidence is good all the way down to the lowest doses. Any level of radiation ingested internally is unsafe.

The US government has deliberately minimized the catastrophe, partially due to a pact Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed with Japan.

Governments Worldwide Raise Acceptable Radiation Levels Based Upon Politics … Not Science. Instead of Protecting People, Governments Cover Up by Raising “Safe” Radiation Levels.

Radiation from Fukushima is in the food chain, and it it here to stay. The concern is if the leaks are not stopped, how much more will be added.