Excessive amount of cesium found from Italian blueberry jam

Shibuya-ku ordered MIEPROJECT located in Shibuya, Tokyo to collect blueberry jam it is importing from Italy due to excessive amount of cesium included.
Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health on Oct. 18 detected 140 becquerels of cesium per kilogram from the jam which is over the reference value.
Approximately 5,000 bins of jam will be collected.
The authority speculates the cesium is from Chernobyl disaster occurred in 1986.


輸入ジャムからセシウム検出　―NHK NEWS WEB
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/shutoken-news/20131018/5389871.html


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Radio active caesium detected from 0.1% of children in Fukushima

Children take inspection(*image)

Inspection of internal radiation exposure implemented to 5,931 children aged between 4 to 12 in Fukushima from April to June this year revealed that radio active caesium is identified from 6 or 0.1 percent of children.
Among them, three children are from the same family with the highest rate of 615 Bq, caused by eating wild mushrooms.
Restraining vegetables grown outdoors, government's strict regulations for foods and the nation's low food self-supporting ratio have contributed the result, doctors analyses.
Caesium taken inside child's body reduces by half in 30 to 60 days because of metabolism function.


原発事故:福島の子供　セシウム検出０．１％に　―毎日jp
http://mainichi.jp/select/news/20120803k0000m040147000c.html