Safety limit of infant food and milk will be 100 Bq/Kg.

Following up this article ..MHLW manipulated new safety food limit

On 2/16/2012, councilor of radiation belonging to Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare returned the final report to raise the safety limit of infant food and milk from 50 Bq/Kg to 100 Bq/Kg.
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare was planning to introduce a new rule from April to set the safety limit of infant food and milk as 50 Bq/Kg.
However, the councilor asserted the yearly dose of infant, who are younger than 1 year old won’t be more than 1 mSv even if they set the safety limit as 100 Bq/Kg.

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乳幼児食品基準「不要」と意見=セシウム100ベクレルで「配慮十分」―放射線審
時事通信 2月16日(木)11時56分配信
食品に含まれる放射性セシウムの新たな規制値案について、厚生労働省から諮問を受けた文部科学省放射線審議会が16日開かれ、1キロ当たり50ベクレルとした「乳児用食品」や「牛乳」の基準について、「特別の規格基準値を設けなくても、子どもへの配慮は既に十分なされた」などとする意見が示された。
放射性物質による被ばくが懸念されている子どもへの特別な基準は不要とするもので、消費者や保護者から批判の声が上がる可能性もある。
厚労省の新規制値案では、食事による被ばく線量の上限を年1ミリシーベルトと以前より厳しく設定。穀類や肉、野菜など「一般食品」に含まれるセシウムの規制値は1キロ当たり100ベクレル、新設される「乳児用食品」や「牛乳」は同50ベクレルなどとし、4月から導入するとしていた。これに対し、放射線審議会の意見では、1キロ当たり100ベクレルの基準で、1歳未満を含む子どもの年間被ばく線量が1ミリシーベルト以下に抑えることが十分可能なものになっていると指摘している。

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