Radioactive beef scare widens - Areas far from Fukushima plant directly affected by nuclear fallout

[kristopher]

Radioactive beef scare widens
2011/07/24


Cattle fed on locally grown straw in Iwate, Miyagi and Tochigi prefectures were contaminated with radioactive cesium exceeding government safety standards, prefectural government officials announced July 22.

The latest announcement indicates that districts relatively distant from the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant may have been directly affected by nuclear fallout.

Meat from one cow raised on local straw in the southernmost part of Iwate Prefecture, more than 150 kilometers from the Fukushima reactors, contained 1,210 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram. That is more than double the government's safety limit of 500 becquerels per kilogram.

The beef was shipped to Tokyo at the end of June and later distributed to Kyoto...

http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201107230303.html