Japanese government is going to raise the safety limit for infant

Japanese government is going to raise the safety limit for infant

 

Councilor of radiation belonging to Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare returned the report to allow them to raise the safety limit of infant food, which is from 50 Bq/Kg to 100 Bq/Kg.

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has been asking the councilor for the opinion which is more friendly to agricultural industry.
As the reason, the councilor states even if an infant takes 100 Bq/Kg of food everyday, the yearly internal dose would be less than 1 mSv.
However, even this limit may be raised because some of the stakeholder of fishing and agricultural industry claim it is still too strict, it’s harmful for the reconstruction of the disaster area.
The councilor mentioned variety of stakeholders should be involved in making the new safety rule. Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is going to effectuate the new rule as of April.

Source
セシウム新基準値:乳児用食品100ベクレルに…答申案

厚生労働省の諮問を受け、食品の放射性セシウムの新基準値案を審議していた文部科学省の放射線審議会(会長・丹羽太貫京都大名誉教授)は2日、乳児用食品と牛乳について、1キロあたり50ベクレルを100ベクレルに緩めてもよいとする答申案をまとめた。次回に最終案を厚労省に答申する。

審議会では「乳児も含めどの年齢層でも、1キロあたり100ベクレルの食品を摂取し続けても、年間被ばく限度の1ミリシーベルト以内に収まる」との意見が大勢を占め、子供の健康は十分に守られるとの見解で一致した。新基準値案は農漁業生産者に厳しすぎ、被災地の復興にも影響を与える可能性があるとの意見も出た。答申案には「基準値の決定にさまざまな関係者が関与すべきだ」と記された。

厚労省は昨年12月、穀類500ベクレルなど今の暫定規制値を見直し、乳児用食品50ベクレル▽牛乳50ベクレル▽一般食品100ベクレルなどの新基準値案を発表。放射線審議会の答申や国民の意見募集を経て新基準値を決め、4月から施行する。【小島正美】

毎日新聞 2012年2月2日 23時10分

 


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I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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