Friday, 10 June 2011Authorities said Friday they had found radioactive substances in Japanese green tea in the nation's largest growing region, 370 kilometres south-west of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, DPA reported.
The dried tea leaves from the Warashina area in Shizuoka were found to contain 679 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive caesium, above the officially permitted level of 500 becquerels.
Japan produced 83,000 tons of dried tea leaves in 2010, of which Shizuoka prefecture makes up about 40 per cent.
The government decided on June 2 to stop shipments of dried tea leaves produced in some areas in the prefectures of Ibaraki, Chiba, Kanagawa and Tochigi after samples of tea leaves in the areas contained more than 500 becquerels of radioactive caesium.
Since the plant was hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, it has leaked radioactive substances. |
Friday, 10 June 2011
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