Japan: Ministries divided over radioactive tea(is radioactive tea safe or not?)

Yomiuri Shimbun ^ | 05/18/11

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ministries divided over radioactive tea

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Local farmers have been thrown into confusion after the health and farm ministries expressed differing views over shipments of tea harvested in Kanagawa Prefecture after fresh leaves were found to have exceeded government limits for radioactive cesium.

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has been trying to restrict shipments of tea leaves from the prefecture about 300 kilometers from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant due to health concerns. The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry, however, has claimed that despite the high levels of radioactive material, drinking tea made from the leaves would be safe because the radioactive material would be diluted.

One tea farmer in the prefecture grumbled, "I have no idea what's going to happen. I want them to clear things up."

The radiation safety limit for tea leaves is 500 becquerels per kilogram, the same as for vegetables, while the limit for tea drinks is 200 becquerels per kilogram, the same as for drinking water.

There have been no reports of drinks exceeding the 200-becquerel limit made from radiation-contaminated tea leaves. But fresh tea leaves harvested May 9-12 in six municipalities in the prefecture were found to have been contaminated with more than 500 becquerels of radioactive material.

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[Mr. K]

I’ll buy some

years from now more studies will show it has an actual beneficial effect

I am not talking out of my #$$

I am a physicist

[Georgia Girl 2]

“I’ll buy some
years from now more studies will show it has an actual beneficial effect
I am not talking out of my #$$
I am a physicist”

Your’e a nut. Years from now if you are still alive you will have thyroid cancer and glow in the dark.

[Mr. K]

Read the studies on the effects of radiation on the wildlife around Chernobyl, then come back and apologize for calling me names

... you stinkyface

[Georgia Girl 2]

I have read it and the wildlife is glowing in the dark. Especially the boars. If you are a Physicist I’m a supermodel.

[BuffaloJack]

> I’ll buy some
> years from now more studies will show it has an actual beneficial effect
> I am not talking out of my #$$
> I am a physicist

Mr. K,
I have advanced degrees in physics, chemistry, electrical and mechanical engineering.
That makes me a physist too.
I have to agree with Grorgia Girl, you are a nut.

[Moleman]

No he is not a nut..... Just ask Ann Coulter :p

[pabianice]

Years ago, the US nuclear industry ran a nation-wide magazine campaign. The ad showed a smiling, grandmotherly woman serving a pie to her family. The text ran: "Grandmom's apple pie is radioactive. So is grandma." The text explained that radioactivity is part of nature and that everything has a low-level radioactivity. The ad did not work as planned; it just made people more nervous about nuclear power.

As some have already noted, the Green psychopaths do not care about facts. Greenism is a cult in every sense of the word. They are self-congratulating themselves for erradicating every form of power generation except for fantasies like Star Trek's dilithium chambers, fairy dust, and unicorn poops. They themselves have carefully shielded themselves from the effects of their insane policies by arranging their lives in ways that the loss of real power sources will be only an annoyance.