French laboratory finds high levels of radioactive contamination in food in Japan
The Commission for Independent Information and Research on Radioactivity, known as CRIIRAD, an independent French laboratory created after the 1986 Chernobyl explosion, is reporting that radioactive contamination of spinach sampled as far away as 100 kilometers from Fukushima are at dangerously high levels and should not be consumed. Milk sampled in Fukuhsima Prefecture towns about 60 km west-northwest from the reactor site was also found to be contaminated. CRIIRAD has been collaborating with Beyond Nuclear to provide analysis of water samples collected around U.S. nuclear plants, testing primarily for tritium (radioactive hydrogen) which is known to have leaked at numerous U.S. reactor sites.
Read the full Beyond Nuclear press release.
Supporting scientific documents
J1 11_03_20_Japon_Aliments_criirad V1.pdf
J2 Epinards_IBARAKRI_19 mars.pdf
J3 Lait_Prefecture_Fukushima.pdf
J4 20110320IbarakiPrefNationalFoodContamination_22b(2).pdf
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About CRIIRAD
CRIIRAD is a national independent laboratory based in Valence, France, which was formed after the Chernobyl reactor explosion in 1986 when the French government failed to take protective measures, resulting in widespread exposure in France (caused by numerous radioactive hotspots from Chernobyl fallout). It is completely unaffiliated with any government entity and its work has never been scientifically challenged.
Over the years, CRIIRAD has identified the radioactive contamination in France from the Chernobyl fallout; the country’s 210 abandoned uranium mines whose tailings have paved school playgrounds and parking lots; the deliberate effort by the French government to apply the wrong scientific protocol in an attempt to discredit a medical study that found leukemia clusters near the La Hague reprocessing facility; and the revelation that Areva’s uranium mining activities over the past 40 years in Niger and Gabon have left the drinking water, air and soil contaminated with unacceptably (and illegally) high levels of radioactivity. (CRIIRAD’s Web site can be viewed – in French – at http://www.criirad.org/).