The north Pacific Ocean
is already contaminated by large amounts of toxins and pollution from
dumping into the sea by China, a world leader in pollution, and
formerly by the United States during decades of unrestricted
development with minimal environmental safeguards.
However the largest nuclear disaster in history, Japan's Fukushima nuclear plants
melt-downs have added significantly to the nuclear contamination of
the Pacific and affected not only fish and other food from Japan but
also USA, China, Korea, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and
parts of Malaysia and Indonesia.
Less than one year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March
2011, by its own admission, the Australian Government's Ministry of
Agriculture all Caesium134 (134Cs), Caesium137 (137Cs)
and Iodine131 (131I). Iodine131 (131I) testing
ceased
in early 2012 based on advice from the Australian Radiation
Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) and Food Standards
Australia New Zealand (FSANZ).
Apparently in the
interests of big business rather than the Australian public the
government stopped all testing for nuclear contamination doing so on
the advise of ARPANSA and FSANZ. Meanwhile the maximum safe levels
for contamination were increased silently and without any media
fanfare twenty fold in 2012.
FSANZ also reported
that Australia's Department of Agriculture ceased all testing of
food from Japan. Correct, the
official website itself declares that the Department of Agriculture
decided
on 23 January 2014 to not only stop testing for nuclear
contamination, but to stop testing of any kind on food imports from
Japan.
Tuna and sardines even
from Thailand, far from Japan, canned many years ago and still
available for sale with an expiry date later this year have been
tested by independent persons with suitable equipment and found
to have high levels of radiation:
“With these sardines
coming from Thailand and not from Japan, I would say the whole Asian
region is feeling the effects of the Fukushima melt-downs, so it's
not just Japan that the food is being contaminated from but the whole
Asian area. With Japan using (a million) gallons of water daily to
cool the melt-downs this water is going right into the sea into the
(Pacific) Ocean”.
Not only fish labelled
as being from Thailand have had unacceptably high levels of radiation
but also cherry
tomatoes and asparagus, apples, pears and other fruit have been
exported from radioactive Fukushima areas of Japan to Thailand.
These are then labelled “Made in Thailand” and exported to
Australia along with much of the other produce in Coles and
Woolworths.
TEPCO the Japanese
electricity company responsible for covering up decades of safety
reports about Fukushima is continuing with its on-going coverup along
with the EU and US media also covering
up information about continuing Fukushima leaks, still
taking place in March 2015.
The response in the USA
has been little different: due to increasing levels of radiation
being measured across the USA resulting from the Fukushima nuclear
fall-out, in order to prevent mass panic and having to declare
emergencies, within 2 months of the disaster the Environmental
Protection Agency shut
down its radiation monitors.
Australian citizens, as
with their American counterparts, can since long no longer count on
government agencies to cater for their interests let alone carry out
any obviously required monitoring of food imports. It appears the
elite interests, including Coles and Woolworths which dictate
government policies have their own sources of supply and not that
which is consumed by the general public. They are best served turning
to independent testing services such as The
Food Lab.
Even Australian food
produce is at risk in many areas due to ground
water poisoning and levels of Uranium 20 times the Australian
Drinking Water Guidelines. The same page lists numerous sources
including the Japan Meteorological Research Institute's report that
Fukushima contaminated sea water has not remained in the North
Pacific Ocean but is also to be found since 2013 on the East Coast of
Australia and in Indonesia.
As pointed out in a
recent article Deadly
Tuna From North Pacific Surfaces in Australia there is no way for
Australian consumers to know the real origin of fish. Our above
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