Please CALL CONGRESS TODAY! 202 224 3121 National Call In To Action Day April 10, 2014 https://www.facebook.com/RADSrBAD2EAT The allowable limit for radioactivity consumed in food in JAPAN is 100 Bq/kg. In the U.S., it's a whopping 1,200 Bq/kg, the highest allowable limit in the world. A Becquerel means one radioactive disintegration per second. In Japan, if your food has more than 100 Becquerels in a kilogram, about 45 Becquerels in a pound, then it’s not considered safe to eat.In the USA you can have 540 radioactive disintegrations per second (Becquerels) in one pound of seafood/meat or other foods and that is considered safe!Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President of the US Chamber of Commerce Thomas Donahoe went to Tokyo and signed a PPP agreement (Public/Private Partnership) on April 17, 2011. This PPP allowed fish caught in Japanese waters to be sold and imported into the US with up to 12 times the radioactive contamination as is allowed to be sold in Japan. Seafood that isrejected by Japan is being imported into the USA. Vulnerable children and pregnant women are among those presently ingesting this seafood. FFAN’s petition seeks to significantly lower the current allowable levels of radiation in all food, including seafood and other food and beverages to 5 Bq/kg, nearly identical to the limits proposed by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in Germany and the EU. BIOACCUMULATION: “Radiation is cumulative, there is no safe dose and each dose received by a person adds to the risk of developing cancer.” Dr. Helen Caldicott _________________________________________________________________________ Internal (internal emitters from food, water, air, milk) and external radiation can cause: Cancers of the bone, digestive tract, brain, lung, thyroid, breast, stomach, central nervous system, lymph system, blood or skin. Radiation-related leukemias i.e. acute myeloblastic, acute lymphoblastic, and chronic myelocytic forms. Damage to the immune system resulting in chronic poor health. Strontium-90 deposited in bone affects white blood cells. Spontaneous abortion, low-birth weight babies, hyaline membrane disease, poor growth and development. Iodine-131 in thyroid disrupts production of growth hormone. Mental retardation, decreased intellectual ability, birth defects, hypothyroidism, abnormal blood clotting, premature aging, arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, serious birth defects, respiratory diseases, and early death. Fetuses and infants are 1000 times and 100 times, respectively, more sensitive to radiation than adults. (Dr. Alice Stewart 1970 study.) “Radioactive isotopes that concentrate in specific organs...are millions of times more dangerous per unit mass than ordinary chemical toxins.” Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass, Ph.D. Low dose versus high dose radiation: In the body when dissolved oxygen captures an electron from absorbed or ingested radiation (called free radicals), they attach to the cell membrane wall and dissolve it. This destroys the integrity of the cell and the cell function. The higher the dose of radiation, the more the free radicals are produced, and because they can combine with one another and deactivate one another, it is at the lower doses where you see the most damage. Short intense doses of radiation usually kill a cell outright or cause a DNA mutation. Low, prolonged doses produce free radicals which damage the cell membrane. An individual’s risk of contracting a cancer during his or her lifetime increases with each exposure. “Every dose is an overdose.” Dr. George Wald, Nobel Laureate ____________________________________________________________________ The Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN) is urging the public to participate in a National Call in to Action Day this coming Thursday, April 10th by contacting their elected Representatives in demanding a rational, transparent, and binding level for testing radiation in food. This is in response to very recent statements by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it sees no reason "to alter consumption of specific foods imported from Japan or domestically produced food including seafood.." There is a Facebook page on Becquerel Awareness Day ("It's B.A.D., because rads are bad to eat!") with talking points and more information. It also links to an Event page where people can RSVP and invite others to join. All that's needed on April 10th is a phone to let DC know we're demanding that FDA act responsibly in the ongoing wake of Fukushima. FFAN will also be using other social media for this event and welcomes your participation. Please click here https://www.facebook.com/RADSrBAD2EAT https://www.facebook.com/RADSrBAD2EAT&lang=en Becquerel Awareness Day's National Call in to Action is in response to FDA's actions as outlined in this press release: Find a copy of the press release to share via social media here: http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/groups-demand-fda-respond-to-petition-to-lower-limit-of-radioactivity-allowed-in-food-institute-more-robust-testing-487824.htm http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/groups-demand-fda-respond-to-petition-to-lower-limit-of-radioactivity-allowed-in-food-institute-more-robust-testing-487824.htm&lang=en USA Pre-Fukushima Cesium Safety Level: 3 pCi/ltr = 0.111 Bq/Ltr USA New ‘Safety’ Level Post-Fukushima: 200 pCi/ltr = 7.4 Bq/Ltr 7.4/0.111 = 66.6 % increased allowable radioactive level in USA food we consume to cover up for the nuclear industry/ GE. The US government raised the level to 200 pCi/ltr AFTER the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc6FPIK1VaY http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/hot-particles-from-fukushima-continue.html Excerpt: “The particle that we examined was a mixture of fission products from a nuclear reactor and nuclear fuels. We looked at materials like Telurium, Radium 226. We saw Cesium 134 and 137, Cobalt 60 and a whole zoo of isotopes that probably you’ll never hear about on CNN but you’d have to be a physicist to understand. *Let’s put it this way. Eighty percent by weight of this particle was made up of pure reactor core materials. So that tells me that something that came directly from the accident, directly from the core, could escape containment and travel a very, very significant distance. So it’s a long distance to travel, and what happens is the particle is so very small that it will essentially travel with whatever gas it’s entrained in. The winds will blow it long distances.” * http://enenews.com/canadian-experts-predict-fukushima-radioactivity-in-fish-shellfish-to-exceed-govt-food-limit-to-be-well-above-1000-bqkg-maximum-according-to-scientific-model-a-high-priority-looming ___________________________________________________ The fish showing up in markets could be from right off the fuku coast. http://www.examiner.com/article/radiating-americans-fukushima-rain-clinton-s-secret-food-pact Comment from enenews blog: Sickputer And Fukushima Prefecture was firmly established as the organic food breadbasket of Japan before 3/11. Now they can't give away the contaminated crops to most prefectures. So the obvious market is the oblivious foreign consumers. Millions of people will die unknowingly because they ate Japanese crops from central Japan. Ugly secret. http://rt.com/op-edge/fukushima-catastrophe-health-japan-803/ Published time: September 13, 2013 Excerpt: Medical implications by Dr. Helen Caldicott: Water in the bay beside Fukushima is highly contaminated with tritium, which is constantly increasing in concentration and now measures 4,700 Becquerels per liter - the highest level ever recorded in seawater. Furthermore a total of 20 to 40 trillion Becquerels of tritium have now been discharged into the Pacific Ocean –a Becquerel is one disintegration of radiation per second. Tritium is radioactive hydrogen, H3. It combines with oxygen to form tritiated water HTO, which is very dangerous. It emits an electron, or beta particle which, if lodged in the body, is very energetic. Tritium combines within the DNA molecule inducing mutations. In numerous animal experiments tritium causes birth defects, cancers of various organs including brain and ovaries, and it induces testicular atrophy and mental retardation at surprisingly low doses. Tritium is organically taken up in food and is concentrated in fish, vegetables, and other food groups, and it remains radioactive for over 120 years. Ingestion of contaminated food causes 10 percent to combine in the human body where it can remain for many years continuously irradiating cells. One of the main elements is cesium, a potassium mimicker, which concentrates in the heart, endocrine organs and muscles where it can induce cardiac irregularities, heart attacks, diabetes, hypothyroidism or thyroid cancer and a very malignant muscle cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. Cesium remains radioactive for 300 years and concentrates in the food chain. Another very dangerous element is strontium 90, which also is poisonous for 300 years. Analogous to calcium, it concentrates in grass and milk, then relocates into bones, teeth and breast milk where it can cause bone cancer, leukemia or breast cancer. *Amongst the many other radioactive elements which are almost certainly escaping into the sea is plutonium which lasts for 240,000 years and is one of the most potent carcinogens known, such that a millionth of a gram can cause cancer. Each reactor core contains 500lbs of plutonium, but Reactor 3 contains even more, because it also contained plutonium/uranium fuel rods which were placed inside the core as an experiment.* As plutonium resembles iron in the body, it induces cancers in the lung if inhaled, and also cancers in the liver, bone, testicle and ovary. As an iron analogue, it readily crosses the placenta causing severe birth deformities similar to those produced by the drug thalidomide. All radioactive elements which irradiate the reproductive organs will induce genetic mutations in the sperm and eggs, thereby increasing the incidence of genetic diseases over future generations such as diabetes, cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, hemochromatosis and 6000 others. These are only several of over 100 deadly radioactive poisons polluting the Pacific Ocean and the air, each of which has its own pathway in the food chain and the human body. Radioactive elements are tasteless, odorless and invisible, and it takes many years for cancers and other radiation-related diseases to manifest – five to 80 years for most cancers. Children are 10 to 20 times more sensitive to the carcinogenic effects of radiation than adults, fetuses are thousands of times more so. One x-ray to the pregnant abdomen doubles the likelihood of leukemia in the baby. Females are also more sensitive than men at all ages. Radiation is cumulative, there is no safe dose and each dose received by a person adds to the risk of developing cancer.
Of great concern is the fact that 18 cases of childhood thyroid cancer in children under the age of 18 have already been diagnosed and 25 more are suspected in Fukushima. This is a remarkably short incubation time for cancer, indicating that these children almost certainly received a very high dose of iodine 131 plus other carcinogenic radioactive elements that were and are still being inhaled and ingested. Thyroid cancer in Chernobyl victims did not appear for four years. Thyroid cancer is rarely found in young children. Iodine 131 is radioactive for 100 days, and is a potent carcinogen. Iodine 129 on the other hand lasts millions of years. Over 350,000 children still live and go to school in highly radioactive areas, and as juvenile thyroid cancers are arising, so the number of leukemia cases will start to increase about two years from now, with solid cancers of various organs diagnosed about 11 years later. These will increase in frequency. We must close down the nuclear industry now. The nuclear industry/utility companies/ weapons manufacturers and nuclear power corporations are killing us all for profit and power. Radiation should not be in our food, water or air at any level higher than natural background radiation, which was before the first atomic explosion. Our planet has been trashed forever. Uranium 238 half-life: 4.5 Billion years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQVYL7TzTr8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJIEZvX4PZI3t=1568 e-mail sent by Francene McClintock, Perham Maine Please Share! _______________________________________________ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel
