Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Daily update from Japan


Saturday, March 19, 4:30 p.m. ET, Tokyo
Press conference: Confirmed reports of first food contamination of spinach (from Ibaraki prefecture) and milk (from Fukushima prefecture). More sampling is needed to determine how the food contamination is spread. The level -- although it is beyond food safety standards -- is still not harmful to public health; the total exposure level is about one CT scan (around 6.9 millisieverts) if consumed over one year.

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