Beef contaminated with radioactive cesium

Beef contaminated with radioactive cesium

NAGOYA, Japan - Local public health officials in Aichi Prefecture place beef, in which radioactive cesium has been detected, in a bag on July 15, 2011. Concern over tainted meat reaching market was heightened by a Tokyo metropolitan government announcement that radioactive cesium at levels exceeding the safety limit had been found in beef from cattle shipped from a farm in Asakawa, Fukushima Prefecture, to a slaughterhouse in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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  • 2011/7/16 00:00:00
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