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Gov't to newly set safety limit for radioactive cesium in baby food

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The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said Thursday that it will review its radioactivity safety limits on food and drink, classifying infant food such as formula in a new group.

The ministry currently sets radiation limits for five categories -- drinking water, milk and dairy products, vegetables and grain, and other food items including meat, eggs and fish, NHK reported. The limit for radioactive cesium is 200 becquerels per kilogram for water, milk and dairy products, and 500 becquerels for the three other categories.

Under the new recommendations, there will now be four categories -- water, milk, other food items and baby food, which will have its own category, NHK reported.

The ministry plans to reduce the cesium limits to around 1 millisievert per year from the current level of 5 millisieverts, NHK reported.

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these levels are for the whole of Japan. So every child should be monitored with free screenings to check the levels of radiation they have.

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You can get American made baby food from the Foreign Buyer's Club out of Kobe by mail in about 5 days.

I kick myself that I did not do that much sooner for my little one. This government is incompetent.

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Why are they even discussing this? The acceptagble level of Cesium in baby food should be ZERO! This is a ministry of idiots!

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Gerber's was my favorite.

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The ministry plans to reduce the cesium limits to around 1 millisievert per year from the current level of 5 millisieverts, NHK reported.

All products list ingredients, why can't ALL products list radiation levels!!

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Agree, NuckinFutz- a limit of zero would be great.

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So, J-gov decided to increase the safety limits for infants from 100Bq/kg to 200Bq/kg. Why am I not surprised?

I'm glad the J-gov doesn't feel guilty anymore.

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Why don't they start recommending chemotherapy clinics at the same time? This is just suicidal. The Japanese government just wants us to stay and pay for their mess. We 're eating contaminated food. Their new slogan. Got radiation milk?

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BernieK.

Any hospital/doctor can dispense Chemo-therapy(radiation-therapy is the tough one) once the dosage and frequency been diagnosed by an expert.

Just a drip really from a medical point of view, of course side-effect monitoring is a must but that can be done remotely now with the current tech.

Honestly feel that people should inform themselves about cancer and the signs, treatments, etc before posting. It is reckoned that every person knows a cancer sufferer and don't know it.

As for listing all the info on the packaging, the testing, making the packaging bigger to fit all the info would drive the costs up. Cancer treatments aren't cheap from the start and prolonged treatments, etc bankrupt many(even if they have additional medical coverage, etc).

Easier and cheaper to let the properly trained people do their stuff.

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The government's reaction has consistently been shameful to say the least. There is no reason for anyone to trust any food from Fukushima, Ibaraki, Miyagi, Tochigi, Gunma, Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba, and Shizuoka. Their much publicized inspections of Fukushima rice are only taking place in four locations. We can assume that neighbouring prefectures are doing little more than waving and smiling at their own contaminated rice as it passes by on its way to schools around the nation. And rice absorbs relatively little caesium compared to other produce.

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Guess that the New Safety Limit requires all baby food contains "some Cesium"? Just when you think you have heard it all...doubling the threshold is not the reaction that's needed, unless you are in the baby food business. Babies exposed to limit Baby Food companies liability. Not as much? Compared too? Excuses to cover the mass poisoning of future generations. Talk about keeping the harmony at all costs. Lobbyists win again, just go to work...all is normal.

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I just can't belive that I read a headline like this. Acceptable limits for cesium in baby food. I can't see any western country telling mothers that cesium in their babyfood is acceptable.

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Before anyone complains about this new limit they should compare it with the levels in other countries. This would bring Japan's level down to one of the lowest levels in the world.

On another note; Is anyone else having trouble with the sentence structure of the headline? 'Government to newly set safety limits'. It has been doing my head in all day!

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@ Disillusioned

Before anyone complains about this new limit they should compare it with the levels in other countries. This would bring Japan's level down to one of the lowest levels in the world.

No Where else on THIS earth is experiencing a situation like Daiichi.

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Zichi

This is 3 months and 3 1/2 weeks past Chernobyl's time that it was Contained. So know I haven't forgotten. I say again No where else on this earth is experiencing a situation like Daiichi

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