Radiation Contaminated Beef Evades Testing in Japan
Beef from six cattle raised on a farm close to the Fukushima nuclear plant made it to market and were likely even eaten before authorities realized that the beef was seven times the level permitted by Japanese food safety, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Authorities say that the beef wont do damage unless its eaten in large quantities though they didnt mention how large.
The cattle passed the external tests given to all cattle raised near the plant which also included questions about whether feed and water for the livestock had been contaminated. According to The Wall Street Journal, the farmer apparently told authorities that the feed had not been contaminated when it had been.
Fukushima and other localities also test some meat from potentially contaminated areas after the cattle are butchered. But only a few of those time-consuming test have been done. A spokesman at the health ministry said that prior to Saturday’s discovery of contaminated meat, the number of tests conducted on beef from Fukushima was 45a sampling that probably represents less than 1% of what has been shipped.
The greatest threat to the food supply is whether radioactive effluents ever settled on grazing land and farmland. Livestock consume the grass and contaminate themselves as well as their resulting meat or dairy.
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