The north Pacific Ocean is already contaminated by large amounts of toxins and pollution from dumping into the sea by China, a world leader in pollution, and formerly by the United States during decades of unrestricted development with minimal environmental safeguards.
However the largest nuclear disaster in history, Japan's Fukushima
nuclear plants melt-downs have added significantly to the nuclear
contamination of the Pacific and affected not only fish and other food
from Japan but also USA, China, Korea, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia,
Thailand and parts of Malaysia and Indonesia.
Less than one year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March
2011, by its own admission, the Australian Government's Ministry of
Agriculture all Caesium134 (134Cs), Caesium137 (137Cs) and Iodine131 (131I). Iodine131 (131I) testing ceased in early 2012
based on advice from the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear
Safety Agency (ARPANSA) and Food Standards Australia New Zealand
(FSANZ).
Apparently in the interests of big business rather than the
Australian public the government stopped all testing for nuclear
contamination doing so on the advise of ARPANSA and FSANZ. Meanwhile the
maximum safe levels for contamination were increased silently and
without any media fanfare twenty fold in 2012.
FSANZ also reported that Australia's Department of Agriculture ceased all testing of food from Japan. Correct, the official website itself declares that the Department of Agriculture decided on 23 January 2014 to not only stop testing for nuclear contamination, but to stop testing of any kind on food imports from Japan.
Tuna and sardines even from Thailand, far from Japan, canned many
years ago and still available for sale with an expiry date later this
year have been tested by independent persons with suitable equipment and
found to have high levels of radiation:
“With these sardines coming from Thailand and not from Japan, I
would say the whole Asian region is feeling the effects of the Fukushima
melt-downs, so it's not just Japan that the food is being contaminated
from but the whole Asian area. With Japan using (a million) gallons of
water daily to cool the melt-downs this water is going right into the
sea into the (Pacific) Ocean”.
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=634183What the health authorities have done in Australia (and elsewhere on the planet) is criminal, and will be genocidal when people start succumbing the effects of low level radiation poisoning.
[Posted at the SpookyWeather blog, April 24th, 2015.]
