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""For our most strategic project, we knew we had to have Tetra Evero Aseptic," said Pedro Astals, President and CEO of Corporación Alimentaria Peñasanta (CAPSA), Spain's largest dairy.

Another European dairy, Weihenstephan, one of Germany's largest traditional dairies, plans to introduce the Tetra Evero Aseptic from the end of May 2011 to a select number of retail outlets in its first market test of the package. "

@Majj Yikes?

@RadioGuy My stomach is a Rock. I'm so scare for Japan. I spend years in the Caribbean and Bahamas during the hurricane seasons. Got some slaps from from some. Never had this feeling. Is not the winds that are scaring me. Is the Raining that will come ...... agora.ex.nii.ac.jp

@Majj Milk just comes from too far up the food chain, given current events, and has always been a bit iffy for humans, anyway. I'll miss those cheeses you can only make from it, but otherwise cow's milk isn't that hard to replace. Now the task is to see if we can find isotope uptake studies on the milk replacements, soy/nut/coconut/rice/etc....

With a bit of foresight (or even the truth), the organic and small food industries would be laying in rad testing and HEPA filters and the like, because you know big aggro isn't going to, and anyway, it's all so mixed into lots on the way to market that there's little way to isolate contamination. It's an epidemiologist's nightmare.

Geiger counters in Japan post-Fukushima: The disturbing discoveries made by those living here: youtu.be

Typhoon Ma-on approaching Daito Islands [18 July, 2011]: www3.nhk.or.jp

38% of disaster-zone firms cannot be contacted [18 July, 2011]: www3.nhk.or.jp
"A survey has found that nearly 40 percent of the businesses in the area hit by the March 11th earthquake and tsunami cannot be contacted.

A private research firm, Teikoku Databank, carried out the survey of 4,280 companies in the disaster-hit prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima. Some of the firms lie inside the evacuation zones around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The research firm says it was unable to contact 1,632 companies, or about 38 percent of the total, and many of them may have been destroyed by the tsunami.

About 10 percent responded to the survey, saying they had suspended their business operations.

Fifty-one percent said they had resumed work, but some of them are using mobile phones to contact their customers from temporary shelters.

Nearly 7 percent said they will either close their businesses or they are not sure if they will be able to continue.

The research firm says it fears that business owners in the disaster zone are losing their motivation to make a fresh start as they cannot see any rebuilding taking place soon."

@es 38% eh? Man, good thing there won't be any hit to the Japanese economy out of this. Nothing to see here.

@RadioGuy I found that report rather confusing. Did only 10% respond to the survey, with all suspending operations for a time?

@Edano Ooooohh :o)

@RadioGuy Yeah :(

'Colossal blunder' on radioactive cattle feed / Govt officials admit responsibility for foul-up that let tainted beef enter nation's food supply [18 July, 2011]: www.yomiuri.co.jp
"Officials of the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry have admitted they did not consider the possibility of cattle ingesting straw contaminated by radioactive substances emitted from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

"This is nothing less than a colossal blunder by our ministry. It was beyond our expectations that straw would become a source of radioactive contamination," a ministry official said."