Meiji to step up radiation monitoring
Japanese food company Meiji says it will step up radiation monitoring of its products and release data online.
The company came up with new measures following the detection of radioactive cesium in its baby formula.
Meiji said on Tuesday that up to 30.8 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram was found in powdered milk. The company produced the milk at a plant in Kasukabe, near Tokyo, immediately after the March nuclear accident in Fukushima.
The level is below the government safety limit of 200 becquerels per kilogram, but Meiji decided to replace free of charge all 400,000 cans of powdered milk shipped in September.
Meiji says the contamination may have resulted from exposure to radioactive cesium from the Fukushima nuclear plant when the processing facility was ventilated to dry the product.
The food company says that from now on, it will check samples of its products daily instead of the current about once a month, and will upload the results to its website.
The company also plans to monitor aerial radiation levels in the plant's compound and stop production when readings are high.
Wednesday, December 07, 2011 10:58 +0900 (JST
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KawamotoDragon.com
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
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