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California Will Screen Milk for Radiation Contamination Amid Japan Crisis
California officials will screen milk produced in the state for signs of radiation contamination transmitted by grass-eating cows, Howard Backer, interim director of the California Department of Public Health, said yesterday in a press conference.
California authorities are reassuring residents that any radiation drifting across the ocean from Japan’s earthquake- damaged nuclear reactors would not pose any health threat. Officials are monitoring radiation levels and had not detected any rise as of yesterday, Backer said.
Dean Foods Co. (DF), the largest U.S. dairy processor, has not been directly affected by the situation in Japan, company spokeswoman Liliana Esposito said in an e-mail statement. Dean Foods, based in Dallas, is in close contact with dairy organizations working with U.S. government agencies to make sure the dairy industry is taking “all appropriate action,” Esposito said.
California is the biggest U.S. milk-producing state in the U.S., according to the United States Department of Agriculture. Dean Foods gets a “significant” amount of milk from California, Esposito said.
Ensuring Safe Milk Harmful levels of radiation are not expected to affect growing regions in the U.S., according to a statement posted on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration website. The dairy industry “continues to work closely with federal and state government agencies to ensure a safe milk supply,” Peggy Armstrong, a spokeswoman for the Washington D.C.-based International Dairy Foods Association, said in an e-mail statement.
An estimated 4,000 children and adolescents developed thyroid cancer after consuming milk contaminated with radioactive iodine after an explosion and meltdown at a nuclear plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-18/california-will-monitor-milk-for-radiation-contamination-after-japan-quake.html
California Will Screen Milk for Radiation Contamination Amid Japan Crisis
California officials will screen milk produced in the state for signs of radiation contamination transmitted by grass-eating cows, Howard Backer, interim director of the California Department of Public Health, said yesterday in a press conference.
California authorities are reassuring residents that any radiation drifting across the ocean from Japan’s earthquake- damaged nuclear reactors would not pose any health threat. Officials are monitoring radiation levels and had not detected any rise as of yesterday, Backer said.
Dean Foods Co. (DF), the largest U.S. dairy processor, has not been directly affected by the situation in Japan, company spokeswoman Liliana Esposito said in an e-mail statement. Dean Foods, based in Dallas, is in close contact with dairy organizations working with U.S. government agencies to make sure the dairy industry is taking “all appropriate action,” Esposito said.
California is the biggest U.S. milk-producing state in the U.S., according to the United States Department of Agriculture. Dean Foods gets a “significant” amount of milk from California, Esposito said.
Ensuring Safe Milk Harmful levels of radiation are not expected to affect growing regions in the U.S., according to a statement posted on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration website. The dairy industry “continues to work closely with federal and state government agencies to ensure a safe milk supply,” Peggy Armstrong, a spokeswoman for the Washington D.C.-based International Dairy Foods Association, said in an e-mail statement.
An estimated 4,000 children and adolescents developed thyroid cancer after consuming milk contaminated with radioactive iodine after an explosion and meltdown at a nuclear plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-18/california-will-monitor-milk-for-radiation-contamination-after-japan-quake.html
