Levels still minimal in China
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March 31, 2011, Thursday
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Extremely low levels of radioactive iodine have been detected in the air above more areas in China, but pose no threat to public health.
China's National Nuclear Emergency Coordination Committee said low levels of radioactive isotope iodine-131 were detected in 18 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions yesterday. They were Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Henan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Ningxia.
Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Fujian, Sichuan, Shaanxi were reporting traces for the first time, while Beijing and Shandong Province, which detected iodine-131 on Tuesday, didn't report any finds yesterday.
The levels of radioactive iodine-131 in the air above Shanghai remained much too low to pose any risk to health, local officials said.
Experts from Shanghai Radiation Environment Supervision Agency said yesterdayit was conducting 24-hour monitoring and hadn't detected anything other than iodine-131.
Local health authorities said they were closely following the nuclear crisis in Japan and continuing to check food and drinking water.
So far tests on major water sources found nothing abnormal. Green-leaf vegetables in local farms were also free from iodine-131 and caesium-137.
Radiation levels detected across China were equal to the levels of radiation from cosmic rays a person could be exposed to if traveling for 2,000 kilometers in a plane, the national committee said.
Hong Kong Secretary for Food and Health York Chow said yesterday that radiation from the Japanese nuclear plant was unlikely to affect the special administrative region.
Chow said Hong Kong's radiation level was within normal limits and not hazardous to local citizens.
"We will for now focus more on imports of Japanese products that may be contaminated, particularly food," he said.
"We will continue the monitoring as well as the daily testing of all the targeted products, for example all the food imported from Japan. If we detect anything, we will ensure it will not go on the market," he told reporters.
China's National Nuclear Emergency Coordination Committee said low levels of radioactive isotope iodine-131 were detected in 18 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions yesterday. They were Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Henan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Ningxia.
Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Fujian, Sichuan, Shaanxi were reporting traces for the first time, while Beijing and Shandong Province, which detected iodine-131 on Tuesday, didn't report any finds yesterday.
The levels of radioactive iodine-131 in the air above Shanghai remained much too low to pose any risk to health, local officials said.
Experts from Shanghai Radiation Environment Supervision Agency said yesterdayit was conducting 24-hour monitoring and hadn't detected anything other than iodine-131.
Local health authorities said they were closely following the nuclear crisis in Japan and continuing to check food and drinking water.
So far tests on major water sources found nothing abnormal. Green-leaf vegetables in local farms were also free from iodine-131 and caesium-137.
Radiation levels detected across China were equal to the levels of radiation from cosmic rays a person could be exposed to if traveling for 2,000 kilometers in a plane, the national committee said.
Hong Kong Secretary for Food and Health York Chow said yesterday that radiation from the Japanese nuclear plant was unlikely to affect the special administrative region.
Chow said Hong Kong's radiation level was within normal limits and not hazardous to local citizens.
"We will for now focus more on imports of Japanese products that may be contaminated, particularly food," he said.
"We will continue the monitoring as well as the daily testing of all the targeted products, for example all the food imported from Japan. If we detect anything, we will ensure it will not go on the market," he told reporters.
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