Thursday, October 13, 2011

Radioactive Rice

    Saturday government officials in Tokyo Japan ordered more test after detecting levels of radiation in the rice crops near a nuclear power plant at Fukushima, these radioactive things have already been found in beef, milk, spinach and tea leaves, leading to recalls on many of them.   The are really worried about the rice because Japan grows the most rice there is.  The tests showed that the crops contained 500 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium, prefectural officials said, Japans regulations, rice with up to 500 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium is considered safe to eat, the government has been testing fish and other food and rice products ever sense the disaster. Some nations have stopped buying rice form Japan the customers are scared of the radiation hurting them or their family, they are trying to clean and get all the radiation out of the rice.