Food in Japan: Radioactive Cesium from Mandarin Oranges, Milk Industry to Test Milk, and Octopus

ex-skf.blogspot.com ^ | 2/1/2012 | Ex-SKF blogger

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As days go by, food in Japan doesn't look very appetizing, to say the least.

1. Radioactive mandarin orange from Kanagawa Prefecture

Radioactive cesium was found from the edible part of mandarin oranges (which in the US are called "satsuma" for some reason) and the skin. Security Tokyo is a private testing laboratory that uses the high-precision germanium semiconductor detector, not one of those fly-by-night testing "laboratories" cropping up in Japan (like the one who claimed to have "measured" high radioactive "iodine" in the snow in Hachioji. Totally false. Did I write about it? I don't remember...)

But here's the data from Security Tokyo:

Item: mandarin orange from Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, purchased in a supermarket in Yokohama City Date tested: January 31, 2012 Edible part:

Iodine-131: ND Cesium-134: 2.7 becquerels/kg Cesium-137: 3.3 becquerels/kg Total cesium: 6 becquerels/kg

Outer skin:

Iodine-131: ND Cesium-134: 8.2 becquerels/kg Cesium-137: 9.8 becauerels/kg Total cesium: 18 becquerels/kg

I'm asking Security Tokyo for the permission to show their graph showing the peaks for the radioactive materials detected. In the meantime, you can view it at the link.

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Original Title (Truncated to fit FR):
Food in Japan: Radioactive Cesium from Mandarin Oranges, Milk Industry to Test Milk, and Octopus Found with Body Parts

[brivette]

so cesium is big in Japan?

[freedumb2003]

[iowamark]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY&ob=av2e
“The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades”

[mountainlion]

How do you milk an octopus?

[reed13k]

What was it before vs what is it now... I have yet to see this data from anyone on any of these threads.

[sima_yi]

Always keeping in mind, of course, that the radiation level for your average, ordinary, everyday banana is about 100 Bq/kg.

[ransomnote]

Always keeping in mind that bananas are irrelevant to discussions in which cesium and other nuclear waste products are present. For one tiny little example, the human body won’t take up more than a tiny amount of radioactive potassium whereas there is no limit to the amount of radioactive cesium it will uptake - important, basic differences which render the whole banana gimmick a waste of time.

[Moleman]

There is no radioactivity in Japan. And if there were it was depositied by the liberal media </freepers>