News about “radioactive” foodstuff in Japan needs to be taken with a grain of salt:
The Japanese government has found radiation levels “significantly above” acceptable levels in milk, spinach and kakina, another leafy vegetable, produced near the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday. Yet the government says the levels are still low enough that they pose no immediate threat to human health.
Still, because the radiation levels are above legal limits, the government has banned distribution of milk from Fukushima Prefecture and spinach and kakina from Fukushima and three other prefectures.
“Even if you eat contaminated vegetables several times, it will not harm your health at all,” Chief Cabinet spokesman Yukio Edano said in the Japanese government’s latest appeal to ease public concerns.
via Scientists: Radiation in Japan food poses low risk – USATODAY.com.
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