Fukushima radiation taints US milk supplies at levels 300% higher than EPA maximums

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[lastchance]

It is.

[faucetman]

Of course they use the term 300% instead of 3 times so that you might read it as 300 TIMES by accident.

This info is total BS fear mongering.

[FreedomPoster]

Someone noted to me in one of these threads that in his experience, setting of PELs seems driven by the available measurement technologies moreso than actual documented human/animal effects.

[Eepsy]

Aren’t these figures worthless without actual readings from the same areas from before the quake? Just because it’s in excess of EPA standards after a nuclear disaster doesn’t mean there was compliance before....

[bvw]

I’m saying Tepco, like any actual day-to-day power engineering operation has a way high ethical standard, beyond that you may be familiar with in daily life. It is impossible to run a power plant without such ethics.

[bvw]

The political power of compulsatory regulation is so GREEDY that yes, its only limits are the ability to observe and measure.

[bvw]

Common sense, yes!

[RummyChick]

“high ethical standard, beyond that you may be familiar with in daily life. It is impossible to run a power plant without such ethics”

WHAT????

UNBELIEVABLE.

So it appears that you think US plants can be run the same way as TEPCO plants . The outrageous conduct of that company should NEVER be allowed in the US.

It is beyond Scary that you think their behavior is acceptable after multiple CEOS have had to quit over safety scandals.

It doesn’t take long to figure out just how high the ethical standards are for TEPCO.

Those living around US Nuke plants had better hope the companies running them have better ethical standards than those at TEPCO.

[steve86]

There really isn't anything you can do but the risk is very low or non-existent anyway. My family has been involved in the nuclear industry since the mid-40s in Los Alamos and at Hanford (where I live now). This is pretty minimal on the threat scale unless you live within a few tens of miles of the plant. Be careful not to cause more damage through stressing out — especially to the unborn — than the slight radioactivity ever would have.

[Fresh Wind]

Obama’s fault.

Oh, that's just silly. We all know that Global Warming caused the earthquake, and we also know that Bush caused Global Warming. Ever wondered why his initials are "GW"?

So it's...

Bush's fault!

[bvw]

Such an emotional parabolic is characteristic of ignorance based hysteria. My sister invented a new word last night, she meant to say that something was growing “exponentially”, instead she said “excrementally”. That new word might apply to the growth of hysteria, in general to similar situations — like Katrina and the Gulf Oil Spill — and to this case here.

[bvw]

There are cultural differences, but still the minimal ethics needed to keep big power plant running in any culture are quite high.

[onedoug]

Just what soetoro´s been looking for. Shut down milk production.

[samtheman]

Excremental growth. I love it.

Tell your sister I said thanks.

[Yaelle]

Thanks. But I was thinking, should I make sure my salads and strawberries are grown indoors? Should I try to find milk from indoor, grain fed cows? Avoid the grass fed meat we currently buy? That kind of thing. I am not pverstressing, just want to do the best I can, for my child who is under 50 lbs and the one who is under 4 lbs. (2nd trimester)

[Maverick68]

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[Maverick68]

I would like to thank the Freepers on this thread for bringing sanity and clairty to the story!

[FrogMom]

We lived in Munich when Chernobyl blew. Kids weren’t allowed out to play for a couple of weeks, nor even walk on the grass. We weren’t supposed to buy German milk for a couple of months.

[smokingfrog]

You might want to keep an eye on 0bama & Moochele to see if they stop eating ice cream.

[steve86]

You could but I would not bother. My brother grew up at Hanford when radiation releases were common (mostly unfiltered plutonium work) and I was at the tail end of it. Same applies to all our peers. Water from the Columbia River and milk from local dairies had measurable contamination (Iodine-131 in particular). Exhaustive and extensive epidemiological studies have not demonstrated any definite impact on health in the population in the ensuing decades (although we all believe there must be an elevated community risk even if not statistically significant). There are some relevant cancers in the population, of course, but not clearly above the rate that would have occurred anyway.

What North Americans are experiencing now compared to the community exposure around Hanford in the 40s is just plain insignificant. I would not change the way I fed or raised kids in North America based on this event.