It is the beginning of Sockeye Salmon season. This is a delicious healthy fish loaded with Omega 3 fatty acids. But is it also loaded with radioactive Cesium? Eat at your own risk. Nobody is testing it.
Last August fifteen tuna fish contaminated with radioactive Cesium were caught off the coast of California. These fish all measured at least 10 Bq/Kg Cesium 134/137. The FDA's intervention level is 1200 Bq/Kg radioactive Cesium so all our mass media compared these two numbers and assumed that this level of contamination was safe. There is little, if any, scientific basis for the FDA's 1200 Bq/Kg number. Presently, Japan does not allow more than 100 radioactive cesium Bq/Kg for food.
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Keeping in mind that the EPA's Maximum Contaminant Level is 3.0 pCi/l, for all gamma emitters (I131, Cs134, Cs137, etc.),
The tuna fish were loaded with radioactive Cesium 90 times the level allowed by the EPA for drinking water(please check my math here).
Our mass media was filled with stories such as the following claiming that these Cesium 134/137 levels were safe:
The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in previous years. But even so, that's still far below safe-to-eat limits set by the U.S. and Japanese governments.
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