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PHOTOS Japan’s mutated tomatoes- the evidence is not clear

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2367436/Fukushima-mutant-vegetable-images-sweep-region-years-nuclear-disaster.html PHOTOS Have Japan’s gardeners come a cropper? Mail Online 17 July 13 Two years after Fukushima radiation disaster, evidence of ‘mutant vegetables’ sweeps across the region
Series of snaps apparently showing ‘mutant vegetables’ have emerged online They were posted by a Korean website – it is not clear when they were taken

The fall out from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster two years ago appears to have found its way into the food chain, as a series of snaps apparently showing ‘mutant vegetables’ have emerged online.

A Korean website has published pictures of flowers, vegetables and
fruit covered with deformities and lumps. But it is not immediately clear where the produce was farmed from,
whether the images have been doctored and whether the nuclear disaster is in fact to blame……

Earlier this year a fish caught close the the Fukushima nuclear plant
was over 2,500 times the legal safe radiation limit for seafood, the
plant’s operator revealed.

The company Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) caught the fish, dubbed ‘Mike
the Murasai’ online, in the bay close to the Fukukshima Daiichi main
reactor.

It was confirmed by Tepco to have amounts of radioactive cesium equal
to 254,000 becquerels per kilogram, or 2540 times the limit of 100
becquerels/kg set for seafood by the government….

A report in October last year found radiation levels in most kinds of
fish caught off the coast of Fukushima haven’t declined in the year
following Japan’s nuclear disaster in March 2011. Researchers believe
that deposits of the chemical cesium on the seafloor or leakage from
the damaged reactors is continuing to contaminate the waters – and has
the potential to threaten fisheries for decades.
The levels in the fish are also 10 times higher than the radiation
measured last August in scorpion fish caught near Fukushima.

July 18, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual