Thursday, July 21, 2011

Radioactive Cesium from World-Famous Super Premium Matsusaka Beef

The Matsusaka cows ate the rice hay from Miyagi Prefecture that was contaminated with radioactive cesium far exceeding the provisional safety limit for the cattle feed (300 becquerels/kg).

Matsusaka beef is from cows grown exclusively in Matsusaka in Mie Prefecture, and it commands high premium for its marvelous taste and texture due to high fat content rivaling Kobe beef, or so I hear. I've never eaten any of the premium "wagyu" Japanese beef in my life because they are so expensive. Maybe now there's a chance to get them at a reasonable price, if I don't mind cesium.

From NHK Japanese (1:16PM JST 7/22/2011):

肉牛の餌の稲わらから国の目安を超える放射性セシウムが相次いで検出されている問題で、新たに三重県の松阪 牛の飼育農家の稲わらからも国の目安のおよそ20倍に当たる放射性セシウムが検出されました。すでに出荷された牛のうち、11頭分の肉からは国の暫定基準 値を超える放射性セシウムは検出されていないということで、三重県は、ほかの牛の肉の流通経路などを調べています。

Radioactive cesium 20 times the safety limit for the feed [300 becquerels/kg] has been detected from the rice hay at a cattle farm that raises Matsusaka-ushi (cow) in Mie Prefecture. Of all the cows that have already been shipped, 11 of them did not have radioactive cesium that exceeded the provisional safety limit for the meat [500 becquerels/kg]. Mie Prefecture is tracing the shipment of the rest of the cows.

三重県によりますと、放射性セシウムが検出されたのは、三重県大紀町の松阪牛の飼育農家にあった餌 の稲わらです。この稲わらには、宮城県登米市で刈り取られ、原発事故があった3月11日以降にこの農家に納入されたものも含まれていたということで、三重 県が調べたところ、国の目安のおよそ20倍に当たる放射性セシウムが検出されました。この農家からは、稲わらを食べた可能性のある牛が70頭出荷されまし たが、このうち、販売店に保管されていた11頭分の肉からは、国の暫定基準値を超える放射性セシウムは検出されず、最大でも5分の1程度だったということ で、三重県は「この11頭分については食べても問題ない」としています。そのうえで三重県は、この農家に対し、残っている稲わらを牛に与えないことと牛の 出荷を当面控えるよう求めるとともに、この農家から出荷されたほかの牛の肉の流通経路などを調べています。

According to Mie Prefecture, radioactive cesium was detected from the rice hay kept at a cattle farm in Taiki-cho in Mie Prefecture. The rice hay included the hay harvested in Tome City in Miyagi Prefecture and shipped to the farm after the nuclear plant accident on March 11. The level of cesium was 20 times the safety limit set by the national government for the feed. 70 cows have been shipped from this farm. Radioactive cesium in the meat of 11 of them did not exceed the provisional safety limit [500 becquerels/kg], with maximum of about one-fifth of the safety limit [i.e. 100 becquerels/kg]. Mie Prefecture says "There's no problem if one eats the meat from these 11 cows." Mie Prefecture has asked the farm not to feed cows with the remaining rice hay and to stop shipping the cows for now, while it traces the rest of the cows shipped from the farm.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Special Offer - for today (and the next 33 years) ONLY 499 Becquerel per kg. That's right folks!

Sad.

Anonymous said...

I wonder how the soy harvest will be affected by all this.

Niigata said...

Hello everyone,

There are still 660 km between Mie and Fukushima ...
And straw is contaminated, such as green tea from Shizuoka, Japan and all in general .... As mentioned in a previous post: What will he do without when you go pick up the rice!?! to be treated to dust, rain, runoff will be concentrated radioactive and all that in the grains !?!...

Hopefully then, the Japanese generally become aware of the lies of the government, METI and other ministries that look absolutely independent. The Prime Minister says something, the ministries do what they want ... Private companies also ... It is high time that someone begins to impose a clear line to outline a solution, otherwise the fate of the Japanese government and Japan will be really bad ...

I am married to a Japanese and I love this country and its people. But I still have the greatest difficulty in understanding the spirit of resignation.
We see the deficit of power when the sovereign state is reduced to nothing by liberalism.

In France, it is not better in Japan for nuclear, and the same can happen to us too. But when the president says or orders something (even if I hate it), I do not say a private company, who cares ... It will finish with the army in its offices ...

Going back to something more personal, a Japanese friend made me cook tasted the WAGYU of KOBE week. Fortunately, it was in January. This is quite exceptional as meat in taste and smell. It's like biting into butter. It's still a little too fatty for my taste but it does not detract from taste of something special.

Now tell me taste more than I ever because I have no confidence, it makes me sad anyway ...

What a waste!

Anonymous said...

Maybe there will be some action NOW that the wealthiest Japanese have consumed radiation tainted beef. They'll be saying (in Japanese) 'This was only supposed to happen to the little people!'

Yes, the soy harvest will be telling...

The demands of the Fukushima Fuckup will soon engulf the entire capacity of the Japanese economy.

I'm advising people to SELL...

Anonymous said...

"Special Offer - for today (and the next 33 years) ONLY 499 Becquerel per kg. That's right folks!"
That's only one half-life.


"We see the deficit of power when the sovereign state is reduced to nothing by liberalism."

Liberalism? Get stuck on titles much?
Substitute Corporation-Worship for liberalism and you're getting somewhere.

"In France, it is not better in [than] Japan for nuclear, and the same can happen to us too."

If you are from France, you should begin describing how distanced the nuclear reality is from public presentations.
Greenpeace has documented it well.


"The demands of the Fukushima Fuckup will soon engulf the entire capacity of the Japanese economy."

Yup, once they start breaking out the terato-babies ..

Anonymous said...

I'll re-post this cuz these beta emitters are not a joke, especially for the young,


".. in the body, the average energy deposited by a single tritium beta-decay is about 4-fold greater than the average energy deposited by a single track from Co-60 gamma-ray exposure."

"The relatively high ionization densities of low-energy electrons make them particularly efficient at generating double-strand breaks .. in DNA,"

Irradiate the fetus

- larger mean energy deposition by single tritium beta than from single track from Co-60
gamma (fewer cells or nuclei are hit by tritium, but they are hit harder)

http://ec.europa.eu/energy/nuclear/radiation_protection/doc/publication/152.pdf

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