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 Would You Feed This Food to Your Children? (Part II)

This is the reality that people face when nuclear meltdowns introduce radioactive cesium into the

food chain.

Continuous Testing of Edibles

Source Item Testing

Organization

Sample

Collection

Date

Results

Confirmed

Date

Test Results

(Becquerels/Kg)

Cesium-

134

Cesium-

137

Unreported

Japanese

School Lunch

Program

(Osaka

Prefecture)

Fujidera Health

Center, Osaka

Prefecture

01/28/2014 01/30/2014 <13

Unreported

Japanese

School Lunch

Program(Osaka

Prefecture)

Fujidera Health

Center, OsakaPrefecture

01/28/2014 01/30/2014 <15

Unreported

Japanese

School Lunch

Program

(Osaka

Prefecture)

Fujidera Health

Center, Osaka

Prefecture

01/28/2014 01/30/2014 <15

Unreported

Japanese

School Lunch

Program

(Osaka

Prefecture)

Fujidera Health

Center, Osaka

Prefecture

01/27/2014 01/30/2014 <13

Unreported

JapaneseSchool Lunch

Program

(Osaka

Prefecture)

Fujidera Health

Center, Osaka

Prefecture

01/28/2014 01/30/2014 <14

Unreported

Japanese

School Lunch

Program

(Osaka

Prefecture)

Fujidera Health

Center, Osaka

Prefecture

01/28/2014 01/30/2014 <13

Source:  Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japanhttp://www.mhlw.go.jp/file/04-Houdouhappyou-11135000-Shokuhinanzenbu-

Kanshianzenka/0000037286_2.pdf  

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Excer  pted from “The Tears of Sanriku” 

Jim Bartel has been a Japanese-English translator for 25 years.