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Radioactivity and Food

Meat of cows from Fukushima entered the food market

Meat of cows from Fukushima were sold all over Japan. The radioactive meat could reach consumers through shops or be digested by restaurant goers. Caesium levels in the hay fed to cattle were 520 times above norm.

Meat samples presented a contamination of radioactive cesium, measuring 2,300 becquerels per kilogram, against the provisional ceiling of 500 becquerels, according to the local government.

Conversion of Becquerel to millisievert

The contamination of soil, food and water is given in Becquerel/sq.metre or Becquerel/Kg or litre. [1]

Becquerel
Becquerel (Bq) means one disintegration per second.

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