Japan: Food Contamination Worse Than Previously Thought

March 21st, 2011

I thought that the information out of Japan would get clearer as the days passed, but it just seems to be getting blurrier.

So, it’s more of the familiar serious-not-dangerous shuffle.

Via: Reuters:

The World Health Organization said on Monday that the detection of radiation in food after an earthquake damaged a Japanese nuclear plant was a more serious problem than it had first expected.

“Quite clearly it’s a serious situation,” Peter Cordingley, Manila-based spokesman for WHO’s regional office for the Western Pacific, told Reuters in a telephone interview.

“It’s a lot more serious than anybody thought in the early days when we thought that this kind of problem can be limited to 20 to 30 kilometers,” he said.

Cases of contaminated vegetables, dust, milk and water are already stoking regional anxieties despite Japanese officials’ assurances the levels are not dangerous.

Japan’s government has prohibited the sale of raw milk from Fukushima prefecture and spinach from another nearby area. It said more restrictions on food may be announced later on Monday.

Cordingley said the WHO had no evidence of contaminated food from Fukushima prefecture, where the damaged Daiichi plant is located, reaching other countries.

“We can’t make any link between Daiichi and the export market. But it’s safe to suppose that some contaminated produce got out of the contamination zone,” he said.

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One Response to “Japan: Food Contamination Worse Than Previously Thought”

  1. tochigi says:
    March 21, 2011 at 2:54 pm

    WHO’s regional office for the Western Pacific = zero credibility

    ffs, this “spokesman” (sic) spouts a series of utter banal bs. meaningless. he should keep his trap shut if he soesn’t know shit.

    “we thought that this kind of problem can be limited to 20 to 30 kilometers”

    i wonder who this royal “we” is? WHO? this guys model train set? ffs, whoever had these mysterious thoughts must have been smoking crystals with a glass pipe.

    “got out of the contamination zone”

    out of the what???
    there is no fucking zone. the zone is the wind and the water table.Reuters should be shot for writing this shit and publishng it.

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