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

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

(Sample# 708)

Japanese School

Lunch Program

(Osaka Prefecture)

Ibaraki Health

Center, Osaka

Prefecture

05/12/2014 05/14/2014 <10.6 <12.0

Unreported

(Sample# 709)

Japanese School

Lunch Program

(Osaka Prefecture)

Ibaraki Health

Center, Osaka

Prefecture

05/12/2014 05/14/2014 <9.63 <10.9

Unreported

(Sample# 710)

Japanese School

Lunch Program

(Osaka Prefecture)

Ibaraki Health

Center, Osaka

Prefecture

05/12/2014 05/14/2014 <10.4 <11.8

Unreported

(Sample# 711)

Japanese School

Lunch Program

(Osaka Prefecture)

Ibaraki Health

Center, Osaka

Prefecture

05/12/2014 05/14/2014 <12.2 <13.8

Unreported

(Sample# 712)

Japanese School

Lunch Program

(Osaka Prefecture)

Ibaraki Health

Center, Osaka

Prefecture

05/13/2014 05/14/2014 <9.33 <10.6

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

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Excerpted from “The Tears of Sanriku ( 陸 涙)”