FRANCE DETECTS JAPAN RADIOACTIVE IODINE IN MILK
April 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRENCH government nuclear scientists have warned that radioactive material, usually totally absent from food, has been discovered in milk in France. They are blaming radioactive clouds belching from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. The French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) says radioactive iodine-131 has been found in densities of Becquerels(bq)/litres(l) of 0.09bq/l near Paris and 0.15bq/l in the Loire valley, western France. This is well below legal European Union legal maximums of ...
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