Japan: Green Tea Exports Banned Due To High Radiation Levels

[Cheryl Nelson]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8553854/Japan-green-tea-exports-banned-due-to-high-radiation-levels.html

[Blavatsky]

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/15_20.html

All Fukushima cattle may face radiation checks

Japanese health minister Ritsuo Hosokawa has said he is considering a plan to expand radiation tests on cattle to include animals raised outside the evacuation zones in Fukushima Prefecture.

Hosokawa made the remarks on Friday after it was learned that hay kept by a farmer in Asakawa Town in Fukushima was found to contain high levels of radioactive cesium.

Tests conducted on the hay revealed that it contained up to 97,000 becquerels of cesium per kilogram -- 73 times the government-set safety limit.

Asakawa Town is located about 60 kilometers away from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. It is outside the government-designated evacuation zones.

The farmer said he has already shipped 42 heads of cattle that ate the hay to meat-processing plants in Tokyo, Yokohama, Chiba and Sendai.

Hosokawa says the health ministry is considering a plan to expand radiation testing to more cattle in Fukushima. Prefectural authorities have already decided to test all cattle in the evacuation zone.

Hosokawa also said the government will do its best to trace the whereabouts of the meat from the 42 cows.

The cattle farmer told reporters that he never imagined the hay would be contaminated because it came from far away from the damaged nuclear plant.

Friday, July 15, 2011 14:15 +0900 (JST)

[Kim B]

I am sure everything imported from japan will "glow green" due to three reactors melting down.   I think the world should be banning everything from there.

[Byron wilkins]

GIVE ME A BREAK, NOW WE ARE GOING TO TRUST YOU AFTER YOU LET CHILDREN PLAY ON RADIOACTIVE SOIL AND LITTLE TRUTH HAS COME FORWARD ABOUT MELTDOWNS, SURE WE ARE GOING FOR GREEN TEA ,THANK YOU FOR PROTECTING THE WORLD, YOUR LIES HAVE FAR PASSED ANY GREEN TEA BULL AND THE EDUCATED PEOPLE WILL NOT ACCEPT THIS CHILDISH MOCKERY OF HONESTY. YOU SHOULD BOW YOUR HEADS IN SHAME TO THE WORLD YOU HAVE POLUTED FOR GREED. THE HONORABLE PEOPLE OF JAPAN ARE DOOMED , THEY NEED TO BE MOVED NOW.