Published: March 16th, 2012 at 4:31 am ET |
From a March 15 report in the Yomiuri Shimbun medical section translated by EX-SKF:
- 560 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium was found in a wild rabbit caught in Yonezawa City
- First time that radioactive materials exceeding the safety limit (500 becquerels/kg) were found in wild animals in the prefecture
- Prefectural government has notified the hunters’ associations in the prefecture to voluntarily refrain from eating the meat of wild rabbits until further notice
- Officials explains that it is possible that the rabbit migrated from Fukushima Prefecture
- Prefectural government has conducted the tests for radioactive materials since last fall on 25 wild animals including pheasants and Japanese bears, but the density of radioactive cesium has been below the national provisional limit
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