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Exactly! As you can see, I'm perfectly normal and healthy.

As so often, the sober facts are utterly boring and cannot be called very newsworthy, but they show how news journalism works.

The natural radioactivity of the average human body is around 4 kBq (4000 Bequerel = 4000 nuclear desintegrations per second, mainly due to the natural postassium radio-istope 40K. 1 Bq is about 2.70×10-11 Curie (Ci). That milk had 0.8 pCi/liter. Using some simple math, one has to realize that it needs about 10,000,000,000 liters of that milk in Washington State to generate the same radiation as ONE human body.

Hey, that's many weeks of the milk production of the entire earth!

Fellow EFers, don't get near your fridge, you might contaminate your milk very, very badly!

P.S. I may have missed a zero or two, but, figuratively speaking, it doesn't matter much if you need the Baltic Sea or only Lake Zurich full of milk to equate the natural radiation of one human body.

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DDT gets a bit of a bad press, but everyone forgets that it did completely eradicate malaria larva in the southern states, thus completely removing one of the biggest killers of the 20's from America and making a lot of the land habitable.

I'd make the wild guess that you did not really enjoy geography back at school...

1. The US is WAY closer the Japan than Switzerland
2. The major wind direction is most of the time from Japan to the US, not Europe. This is so stable that the Japanese even tried to utilize the wind for their Fire_balloon attacks during WW2.

If I was living on the west coast of the US, I would be far more worried about the next big earthquake being overdue and two nuclear reactors in California that are located right next to the beach... but that would just be me.

Japan has a high incidence of lactose intolerance. They therefore use milk (a waste by-product of Kobe manufacture) to cool runaway nuclear reactions (think how milk cools heartburn or chillitongue).

It is this milk that has entered the US domestic food chain rather than being shipped to Rothrist for further processing as international law mandates.

Sorry, just that I get it right: The Japanese produce milk and use it to cool down a reactor. Then they fill it in bottles and sell it to the US?!

I knew that there were several cases of steel imported to the EU from China and India that were radioaktive contaminanted: the producers apparently used scrap metal from power stations instead of treating it as hazarduous waste.
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,539120,00.html

But milk?!

AFD is a serious problem.

Yup, IIRC, it's something to do with it being good at helping maintain the integrity levels of the reactor casein.


The recycled/resold milk has two benefits as a bedtime drink for the little 'uns: not only is it self-warming, but also any that goes un-drunk provides a soothing nightlight for the wee angels.

Don't forget to check your yogurt in the dark of the night,if it glows don`t eat it

It also helps little boys aim in the dark...

Actually, it has three benefits: when mixed with ground porridge oats, it forms a new radioactive isotope which gives kids extra internal heating and hallucinations.

Graphic by MeteoFrance showing the spread of radiation from Fukushima

Probably the most dangerous component of US milk is all the growth hormone.

Oh my word. People do believe what they read on the internet.

So it's a sort of Bear-yum Meal, then...