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Response to Article: Low levels of radiation found in West Coast milk
Rocky Montana
[Emphasis and comments added by Rocky Montana]
WASHINGTON — Low levels of radiation have turned up in milk samples from two West Coast states.
Traces of radioactive Iodine-131 were found in milk in California and Washington, according to federal and state authorities who are monitoring for contamination as the nuclear crisis unfolds in Japan. But the officials say the levels are still 5,000 times below levels of concern and do not represent a public health threat.
[Who are these "officials"? Do you really trust anything the government tells you? This is the same government who told us the radiation would pass over the U.S. in the jet stream. Are you really going to trust them with your health? So, as "they" say there is no public health threat, I assume "they" will allow the farmers to sell the radioactively-tainted milk to the public. If that is the case, expect farmers to turn the milk into such things as butter, cheese, cottage cheese, cream, whey protein, yogurt, etc., thereby further tainting our food supply. Therefore, it seems prudent to take precautions and avoid all dairy products and even fruit and vegetables, beef, pork and poultry products from this area of California until you are certain the threat has passed.
May I remind you that radiation is cumulative. It builds up in the body and unless it is somehow quickly purged it starts causing health problems. It is from the low level exposure of radiation over prolonged periods of time that have caused the greatest damage to human health and life. Radiation contamination and poisoning created by both the Chernobyl and Three Mile Island nuclear disasters was found over wide-spread geographical areas of hundreds of miles in every direction.]
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that radiation was found in a March 25 milk sample from Spokane, Wash. The California Department of Public Health said on its website that a similar result was found March 28 in San Luis Obispo County.
[San Luis Obispo County, home to California Technical State University, is where the first massive wave of nuclear radiation from Japan hitting the west coast of the U.S. was reported on March 16, 2011. The wave registered 235 CPM on a radiation monitor for a period longer than 20 minutes. This can certainly account for low levels of radioactive Iodine-131 found in cow's milk. If 25-30 CPM is normal background radiation for the area, then 235 CPM is 10 times normal. Article reproduced below).]
The EPA always monitors radiation levels in the air at several sites throughout the country, but the agency said this week that it is increasing the level of nationwide monitoring of milk, precipitation and drinking water in response to the situation in Japan. Those substances are normally monitored for radiation only a few times a year.
EPA spokesman Brendan Gilfillan said the radiation detected in Spokane is different than what is normally found there.
"While there can be naturally occurring levels of radiation in milk — as there are in the air, at levels far below levels of concern — we don't generally see this particular isotope as part of those background levels," Gilfillan said.
The EPA has found very low levels of radiation in the air connected to the Japanese incident in Alaska, Alabama, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Saipan, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands and Washington state. Gilfillan said the low level of radiation most likely ended up in the milk after a cow ate grass or drank rainwater that contained it.
The FDA, which oversees the safety of the nation's food supply, said such findings were to be expected in the coming days because of problems with the nuclear plant in Japan, and that the levels were expected to drop relatively quickly. Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power complex began leaking radiation after it was damaged by a devastating earthquake and tsunami earlier this month.
"Radiation is all around us in our daily lives, and these findings are a minuscule amount compared to what people experience every day," said Patricia Hansen, senior scientist at the FDA. "A person would be exposed to low levels of radiation on a round-trip cross-country flight, watching television, and even from construction materials."
The United States had already halted imports of dairy products and produce from the affected area of Japan. Other foods imported from Japan, including seafood, are still being sold to the public but are screened first for radiation.
Japanese foods make up less than 4 percent of all U.S. imports. The FDA has said it expected no risk to the U.S. food supply from radiation.
[To not take the above information as a health warning, as these "officials" suggest, is just plain foolishness. You have been warned; you have been given common-sense instructions as to how to protect your thyroid from radiation contamination, etc. May you choose wisely.]
Associated Press writer Garance Burke in San Francisco also contributed to this report.
RADIATION ALERT: First Cloud Reached California [March 16-17]!
Thursday, March 17, 2011
The first radiation cloud reached California [March 16-17] (dangerous radiation from the explosion of Fukushima's first reactor). Radiation Danger is above 126. It stayed at 235 for over 20 minutes:
