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i bet they don't check bread or beer for radiation.

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This milk mixing revelation, so far unsubstantiated, comes from a Prof. Takeda in his blog, but it appears to be backed up by a Sankei newspaper article revealing that the authorities stopped monitoring Cesium levels at individual milk producers in April, and instead started monitoring cooling stations where the output comes from many farmers, including those from safe areas. Naturally the numbers were evened out and those farms with “hot” output were no longer obvious as they got diluted with less-contaminated product. Thus it was that on April 26 the ban on the sale of milk from Fukushima was lifted.
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@RadioGuy : after chernobyl we had a private food radiation network within days set up, because we did not trust the official data. i can't see anything like this in japan.

and the newspapers printed the results, while our govm said: move along, nothing to see.

Barley, soya,fiber, are all fuku crops and were being grown in large enough quantities for this 95 study.
Japan imports over half its fresh produce they have 127million people on that mountainous island any crop would have been used they never talked of farmers losing crops did they ?
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@RadioGuy : who destroys the crop ?

Fukushima farmers ask minister to check all cattle

Cattle breeders from Fukushima Prefecture have asked Japan's agriculture minister to check all cattle in the prefecture for radiation.

The government on Tuesday suspended all beef cattle shipment from Fukushima Prefecture after radioactive cesium exceeding government safety levels was detected in straw used to feed the animals.

On Wednesday, about 30 representatives of farmers' and cattle breeders' groups from the prefecture visited government agencies in Tokyo to demand the state buy up beef cattle that had been banned from being shipped.

They asked agriculture minister Michihiko Kano to inspect all cattle in the prefecture, as well as all beef that had already been shipped, to regain consumer trust.

The government has said it would check all cattle only in areas designated for evacuation.

Kano expressed regret over the government's failure to inform cattle breeders about the risks of rice straw, and said only that he wants to be able to say for sure that beef on the market is safe. He reportedly did not say clearly whether he would instruct all cattle to be inspected.

The head of the prefectural federation of farmers' cooperatives, Tokuichi Shojo, later told reporters that thorough inspections are essential to regain the credibility of Fukushima farm products and livestock.

He said he wants the government to consider how it will check all cattle, based on its experience with outbreaks of BSE, or mad cow disease, and foot-and-mouth disease.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011 18:44 +0900 (JST)
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@edano, how did the private food testing come about? Food producers? groups? citizen groups? This may be the path of least resistance in Japan to copy the process.

A-bomb survivors criticize US tests

Atomic bomb survivors' groups in Hiroshima and Nagasaki have lodged protests against the United States for conducting subcritical nuclear tests.

In Hiroshima, Sunao Tsuboi, head of the Japan Confederation of Atomic and Hydrogen Bomb Sufferers Organizations, said while the tests are not accompanied by nuclear explosions, they are definitely designed to produce lethal weapons.

He added that if the US believes the tests are justifiable, it should announce them forthrightly, but it appears uneasy instead.

He said the group will file a strong protest against the tests, hoping to make slow but steady progress toward the abolition of nuclear weapons.

The head of an atomic bomb survivor's group in Nagasaki, Sumiteru Taniguchi, said that they were betrayed by US President Barack Obama despite their expectations for the president.

He said the US government appeared to have delayed announcing the tests to avoid criticism and that subcritical tests are in defiance of the international community.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011 15:07 +0900 (JST)
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@Edano are there any websites or online books documenting how it happened?

@lillymunster : this was pre-internet time, today it must be far easier to set up.
i will look up if i find something.

@Edano anything historical about it would be a huge help. If we can understand the framework of how it happened we can send that info to various contacts people here have built up.

@lillymunster www.spiegel.de not exactly, looking further...