Contaminated spinach 120km from the nuclear

[malaise]

power plant.

Just heard on BBC news

[inademv]

1. unless they brought spinach from inside the plant

I'm going to call bullshit. Did they provide any source at all?

[malaise]

3. No source provided but they usually have links on the website

later.

[Junkdrawer]

4. It's all over the news...

http://news.google.com/news/more?hl=en&q=japan+spinach&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ncl=dVIRy_yQXDPoOlMAQUgbII16S5KcM&ei=8E2HTeXtAdDwtgeG1NXEBQ&sa=X&oi=news_result&ct=more-results&resnum=1&ved=0CC0QqgIwAA

[malaise]

6. Thanks

:hi:

[inademv]

10. Browsed through them

no hint of a distance from the plant listed. So again I request some citation on the 150km figure.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Fall out...look it up

[Junkdrawer]

2. Don't Japanese farmers dominate the Diet (Japanese Parliament)?

I just don't think they're going to be happy about this....

[Art_from_Ark]

9. They used to dominate

They have been among the most ardent supporters of the LDP. But the LDP is the minority party right now.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Next election LDP comming back

Call it a sneaky.

[reorg]

5. It's from Kyodo News, link here:

Spinach with radiation 27 times higher than limit found in Japan
TOKYO, March 21, Kyodo

Spinach with radioactive iodine 27 times more than the government-regulated limit was found in the city of Hitachi in Ibaraki Prefecture, more than 100 kilometers south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but the radiation levels do not affect human health, local authorities said Sunday.

The growing public concern over the safety of farm products prompted the government the same day to consider instructing local authorities to halt the shipment of relevant produce within a prefecture if produce made there is found containing radioactive substances at levels exceeding regulation, government sources said.

Currently, prefectural governments decide whether to ask municipalities to voluntarily halt shipment of contaminated products.

In 1 kilogram of spinach grown in open air in the city, 54,000 becquerels of iodine was detected, exceeding the 2,000 becquerel limit preliminarily set by the government under the food sanitation law, the Ibaraki prefectural government said.

The level of cesium in the spinach grown in the city was also higher at 1,931 becquerels, compared to the limit of 500 becquerels. ...

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/79856.html

[malaise]

7. GIve thanks we grow our

own spinach.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. I'm about 40 miles south of Hitachi

I doubt I'll be able to grow my own spinach, or any food in my garden, the way things are going.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Hugs

:hug:

[Art_from_Ark]

15. Thank you for the hug

:hug:

Now they have expanded the area of locally-grown spinach ban to not only Ibaraki and Fukushima prefectures, but also to neighboring Tochigi and Gunma prefectures. Since spinach is a common winter crop around here, that's going to affect a lot of farmers.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Yep, and it may not last just for the winter

I hope this solves itself soon... for everybody's sake

[mysterysoup]

14. This is no joke.

[Art_from_Ark]

17. I'm watching a panel discussion now about the spinach crisis

The program's hosts seem to think that the restrictions on spinach from Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma prefectures are an overreaction. "Even if you eat 10 tons of this spinach, the radiation levels are so low it wouldn't affect you."

[david13]

18. Spinach? You think I'm concerned about spinach? No. dc

I mean, hey, this proves I don't have to eat it.