On 4/12/2012, Yaizu fisheries processing industry cooperative and Cooperative YAIZU marine processing center announced they measured 13,300 Bq/kg of cesium from the ash of firewood for dried bonito back in August. Though they were concealing the fact for 8 months, they state they didn’t measure cesium from their dried bonito products.
The contaminated ash is 8 tones, mixed with the firewood from North kanto and Fukushima etc. The worker to landfill the ash of 13,300 Bq/kg for one year will be exposed to 1.3 mSv/y, which is over 1.0 mSv/y.
焼津鰹節組合水産加工業協同組合と協同組合焼津水産加工センターは去年の8月に使った鰹節乾燥用の薪の灰から13,300 Bq/kgのセシウムを検出したと4/12に発表しました。
検出から8ヶ月に渡って情報を隠していましたが、鰹節からはセシウムは検出されなかったと説明しています。
汚染されていることが分かった灰は合計8トン。薪は北関東産や福島産のものを混ぜて使用していました。13,300Bq/Kgのの灰を埋立処分する作業を1年間した場合、従業員の被曝量は年間約１・３ミリシーベルトとなり、一般の許容限度とされる１ミリシーベルトを超えます。
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This is horrible — dried bonito is an indispensible ingredient in miso soup.
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There are many unexpected places where radiation might spread, and over time, the number of places reached can only increase.
Yesterday I was looking for fertiliser for my vegetable garden in Kyoto. The garden shop had big piles of cow dung from a prefecture next to Fukushima, well within the contamination zone. It is fermented dung, which means that it could come from any time soon before or soon after the Fukushima explosions.
The dung might be contaminated or might not be contaminated. There was no sign to say that it has been tested.
Are such garden products monitored by anyone? The are upstream in the food production chain, and should be monitored just as closely as food itself. That way, problems can be detected before they reach our table.
In the end, I bought chicken dung distributed by a company based in Hyogo, but knowing where the distributor is located tells me nothing about where the dung comes from. All I can do is hope that our family will not have contaminated onions next spring.