Japan's food radiation limits
set too high:
Belarusian scientist
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(Kyodo) -- A visiting Belarusian scientist, who has offered
advice to residents affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear
disaster, said Wednesday that he believes Japan's food
radiation limits have been set too high and urged the nation
to lower them to realistic levels.
Vladimir
Babenko, deputy director of the Belrad Institute of
Radiation Safety in the former Soviet republic, told a press
conference in Tokyo that he cannot understand the thresholds
designated by the Japanese government for food and beverage
products, saying they are much higher than Belarusian
standards.
Babenko also
criticized the Japanese government for its failure to set
special standards for children to better protect them from
internal radiation exposure.
For example,
he pointed out that the limit for radioactive cesium in 1
kilogram of drinking water is set at 200 becquerels in
Japan, 20 times as high as the maximum allowable level in
Belarus.
The
scientist is visiting Japan to promote the Japanese
translation of his book about radiation protection. He is
scheduled to make a speech in Fukushima Prefecture on
Friday.
(Mainichi Japan) October 13, 2011
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