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http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?87470-PAP-govt-NOT-BANning-Japanese-Radiative-Sushi-etc-products
This (@ above) was my posting about a week ago. Now what?
http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...adiation-in-japanese-produce-extends-ban.html
Bloomberg
Singapore Finds Radiation in Japanese Produce, Extends Ban
March 24, 2011, 10:39 PM EDT
By Simeon Bennett
(Updates with levels of radioactivity in second paragraph.)
March 25 (Bloomberg) -- Singapore extended a ban on some foods imported from Japan after finding radioactive contaminants in vegetables that were as much as three times higher than prescribed limits.
Imported rape seed plant was found to have 311 becquerel per kilogram of iodine-131, exceeding the 100 Bq/kg standard set by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Singapore’s Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority said in a statement on its website yesterday. Higher-than-acceptable levels were also found in Japanese mustard and perilla leaf, the AVA said, adding the food doesn’t pose a health threat.
The findings prompted the regulator to suspend imports of fruit and vegetables from Chiba and Ehime prefectures, it said, a day after it banned imports from four other prefectures near the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant.
“The short-term consumption of food at these detected levels of radioactive contamination does not pose a health hazard,” the AVA said. “An adult would need to consume 3.5 kilograms (7.7 pounds) of these vegetables to receive a similar level of radiation exposure from one X-ray.”
--Editors: Terje Langeland, Garry Smith
To contact the reporters on this story: Simeon Bennett in Singapore at [email protected]
This (@ above) was my posting about a week ago. Now what?
http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...adiation-in-japanese-produce-extends-ban.html
Bloomberg
Singapore Finds Radiation in Japanese Produce, Extends Ban
March 24, 2011, 10:39 PM EDT
By Simeon Bennett
(Updates with levels of radioactivity in second paragraph.)
March 25 (Bloomberg) -- Singapore extended a ban on some foods imported from Japan after finding radioactive contaminants in vegetables that were as much as three times higher than prescribed limits.
Imported rape seed plant was found to have 311 becquerel per kilogram of iodine-131, exceeding the 100 Bq/kg standard set by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Singapore’s Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority said in a statement on its website yesterday. Higher-than-acceptable levels were also found in Japanese mustard and perilla leaf, the AVA said, adding the food doesn’t pose a health threat.
The findings prompted the regulator to suspend imports of fruit and vegetables from Chiba and Ehime prefectures, it said, a day after it banned imports from four other prefectures near the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant.
“The short-term consumption of food at these detected levels of radioactive contamination does not pose a health hazard,” the AVA said. “An adult would need to consume 3.5 kilograms (7.7 pounds) of these vegetables to receive a similar level of radiation exposure from one X-ray.”
--Editors: Terje Langeland, Garry Smith
To contact the reporters on this story: Simeon Bennett in Singapore at [email protected]
