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Slight Radioactivity Found in Japanese Tea Shipped to Hong Kong

By News Desk on March 17, 2015

tea-and-kettle-406Food safety authorities in Hong Kong found trace amounts of radioactive cesium 137 in powdered tea imported from Japan last week, according to The New York Times.

The sample tested at nearly one percent

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New Radiation Detector for Food Uses Space Technology

By News Desk on March 10, 2015

A collaboration between two companies has developed a device for detecting radiation-contamination food. After an earthquake and tsunami damaged Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011 and caused a significant leak of radioactive material, RIKEN Global…
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Fukushima Rice Finally Passes Radiation Checks

By News Desk on January 6, 2015

A local farming official in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, said Monday that rice grown in the area of the 2011 nuclear disaster has passed that country’s radiation checks. Small amounts of the region’s approximately 360,000-ton rice…
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Study: E. Coli Bacteria Can Build Resistance Quickly, Even To Ionizing Radiation

By News Desk on March 19, 2014

Totally on their own, E. coli bacteria have shown that they can evolve to a point where they are resistant to antibiotic drugs. Now some of the nation’s top scientists are showing how E. coli…
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Woods Hole Scientist: Fukushima Leak Not Affecting U.S. Seafood

By News Desk on September 12, 2013

Despite the recent admission from the Japanese government that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has been leaking radioactive water since it was badly damaged in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, U.S. seafood has not been…
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Cesium Traces Found in Japanese Baby Milk Powder

By News Desk on December 7, 2011

Except for some spinach, turnips and white radishes with high radiation levels caught early on by Hong Kong, “hot” food has not entered the market since last March’s earthquake and tsunami damaged a nuclear plant

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Beef with Radioactive Cesium Turns Up in Japan

By News Desk on July 14, 2011

The Japanese government tried to explain Wednesday how beef containing trace levels of radioactive cesium ended up reaching stores or consumers in several prefectures, and promised to step up inspections to prevent another such incident.…
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World Food Supplies Monitored for Radioactivity

By Gretchen Goetz on March 31, 2011

Governments are stepping up scrutiny of domestic food and water supplies as radioactive material spreads from the country’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it was increasing its

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Letter From The Editor: 'Good Death'

By Dan Flynn on March 27, 2011

We’ve been asking a lot of questions about radiation during the past two weeks because there is a lot of interest in the subject.  

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This past week we’ve seen the United States, through the

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CA Says No Threat of Radiation in Leafy Greens

By Dan Flynn on March 25, 2011

Those leafy greens from California filling America’s salad bowls are safe to eat, so stop worrying about this radiation from Japan business–OK?

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That pretty much says it. At the Irvine-based Western Growers and Produce Marketing

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'Hot' Mackerel Unlikely, and It Won't Get Into USA

By Dan Flynn on March 24, 2011

Japanese milk and spinach just do not factor much in the U.S. food supply, but what about radioactive fish?

Five billion pounds of seafood are imported annually to the U.S. without much inspection.

But we

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