Originally Posted by
hailstorm
I reiterate:
- They are not testing all agriculture, only a small sample
- They are not testing seafood in any significant quantities
- They are only testing for cesium and iodine, not other radioactive matierals
- Ingesting radioactive materials is quite different from merely being exposed to radioactivity
I don't have enough information to say that the food is unsafe, and it's probably nothing to worry about for a tourist. But I don't think you have enough information to say that perpetually eating such food is safe either.
I read that after the incident at 3 Mile Island, children were fed milk from cows that had eaten grass contaminated with radioactive material. And ingesting that milk had significant long term health consequences for those children. As much as I want to visit Tokyo and other parts of Japan, I don't feel comfortable with the information that the Japanese government has put out so far.