Retailer told to stay mum about radiation level in tea

[kristopher]

Retailer told to stay mum about radiation level in tea

SHIZUOKA (Kyodo) -- Shizuoka Prefecture told a Tokyo-based mail order retailer to refrain from carrying information on its website that radioactive materials in excess of the standard limit were detected in tea grown in the prefecture, the retailer said Friday.

A prefectural official told Radishbo-ya Co., after the retailer made a query to the local government Monday, not to disclose the finding for a while on fears that the message could cause unwarranted harm to Shizuoka tea growers, adding that the prefecture would confirm it on its own, the firm said.

The firm, for its part, sent purchasers of the tea letters informing them about the finding, while offering to recall the products.

Shizuoka is famous for its tea production.

A prefectural official said...

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110610p2g00m0dm090000c.html

[Richard D]

1. They grow great tea there

Too bad it'll glow in the dark for a million years or so.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Makes ya wonder what other products they are staying mum about.

[madokie]

3. The last thing I'll want to buy in the rest of my lifetime

and that is anything that has made in Japan on it. I bet in short order they will stop identifying products made in Japan as made in Japan.

[kristopher]

4. They are taking the wrong approach; they should promote the radioactivity

At least, that would be the thing to do if what we've heard from the likes of Ann Coulter and several regular DU contributors is true.

"The ocha with the friendly healthy glow"

"The tasty tea with just the right tingle"

"Shizuoka Love, Fukushima Body"

"Is it a banana or is it Shizuoka Tea? Only your oncologist knows for sure"

[madokie]

6. LOL

I sure hope you're putting that sharp mind to good use besides just setting things straight here. :hi:

[Fledermaus]

5. It's showing up in the sewer sludge. How did it get there?

[SpoonFed]

7. Environmental accumulation, perhaps?

The sewer systems are acting like a huge sieve, where the contamination gets concentrated.

The same thing that happening in people over there I would assume. The assumptions of bio-accumulation were knocked by the pro-nuke crowd here but I can't seem to fathom how there would not be bio-accumulation when there is severe environmental accumulation being measured.

Sure, maybe, if you're lucky, some of the radioisotopes exit your body in a "short" period of time (the rest getting embedded deep within, in the case of strontium). But if you're continually re-introducing the stuff to your body due to the accumulation in the environment and food chain, you're effectively not even getting rid of it at a rate greater than or equal to what you're taking in. Therefore, the idea of a bio-half-life is just another nuke industry red-herring.

This concentrating environmental contamination is just an analogue to that process.