Radiation is good for you! (but don't eat the spinach or drink the milk and water)

[DainBramaged]

Stores and restaurants across Asia dropped Japanese food from shelves and menus as the nation’s government halted spinach shipments and told residents around a stricken nuclear plant not to drink tap water.

The shipments will be stopped “for the time being,” even though contamination levels in Japanese food were not harmful, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said today at a briefing.

Mandarin Oriental International Ltd. (MAND) joined Shangri-La Asia Ltd. (69) in withdrawing Japanese fresh food from its kitchens. Lotte Shopping Co., South Korea’s biggest retailer, plans to halt sales of some fish from Japan starting tomorrow, Nah Geun Tae, a company spokesman, said by phone today.

Workers at the nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture raced to repair damaged reactors after bringing down temperatures of pools holding spent fuel rods in the worst atomic disaster in 25 years. Higher-than-normal radiation was found in spinach and milk samples from Fukushima and neighboring Ibaraki prefectures, “but not at levels harmful to human health,” Edano said yesterday.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-21/asian-hotels-stores-restrict-japanese-food-imports-after-radiation-found.html

[Scuba]

1. Coming to an Area Near You....

Ann Coulter’s Tanning Centers !!

[DainBramaged]

2. "but not at levels harmful to human health,”

I wonder if the guy crossed his fingers when he said that?

[Turbineguy]

3. Radiation is good for you!

Sounds like something Michelle Bachmann would say.