Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive
contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the
shores of the United States 6,000 miles away _ the first time a huge
migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.
"We were frankly kind of startled," said Nicholas Fisher, one of the
researchers reporting the findings online Monday in the Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences.
The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount
measured in tuna off the California coast in previous years. But even
so, that's still far below safe-to-eat limits set by the U.S. and
Japanese governments
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3 comments:
Suhi that glows in the dark awesome
hmmmm. do you really trust the limits set by the U.S. government; let alone any other government? i don't think so...
I've never knowingly bought or consumed any seafood from Indonesia, China, Japan...any Pacific coastal countries for fear of contamination. Especially since the great Tsunami. I hesitate to get Alaskan & west coast products as well. Local is scary enough...
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