Comments Regarding Food and Housing After the Fukushima
Dai-chi Nuclear Accident
Updated: July 27, 2011 17:00 (JST)The analysis contained in this flash report is based on the limited amount ofinformation currently available.

It may be subject to subsequent revisions, for it

documents a current event where information may change rapidly as it progresses.
Fukushima nuclear accidents have caused the leakage of radioactive materials fromreactors and spent fuel storage pools, and they have been released into the environment.
Accordingly, foods with radioactive concentration exceeding the governmental safety
limits have been detected and reported.
Measures have been taken so that the contaminated food exceeding governmental
safety limits will not be put on market, and the radioactivity concentration of various
foods has continually been measured by authorities.

However, it was recently revealed

that beef with radioactivity concentration higher than the safety limit has been shippedto the market.

The livestock feed was found to be radioactively contaminated, andfurther investigation is imperative.

The national safety limit value for all food anddrinks is the threshold amount of radioactively contaminated food intake in a given
year without health risk.

Therefore, incidentally consuming food exceeding the safety

limit will not pose a health risk, unless continually consuming those with excessive
radioactivity concentration.

Needless to say, consuming food under the safety limits iscompletely harmless.
At the early stage of the accident, preventing inhalation of radioactive materials in the
air was considered effective. It lowered exposed dose, since radioactive materials
released from the plant were floating around, and those landed onto the land surface
were easily lifted into the air, especially right after they landed.

Currently, the amountof radioactive materials released from the troubled plant has drastically decreased.
Furthermore, the surface deposition of most radioactive materials, released
immediately after the nuke accident, indicates that they are not easily lifted into the air.
Thus, we could say as of right now that absorption of radioactive materials byinhalation would not raise public concerns.

Unless you see gyrating dust outside,

opening windows or hanging laundries out would pose no health risks.

For inquiries, please contact: QandA@aesj.or.jp

Long-sleevedclothes are also unnecessary.
As for the current evacuation areas and planned evacuation areas, the concentration ofradioactive materials and dose rate will be measured after the condition of Fukushima
Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is stabilized.

This follows the confirmation thatradioactive materials leakage is stopped and there will be no additional leaks from theplant.

Should the contamination above a certain level is detected, de-contamination isdone as necessary, which will eventually restore ordinary lives.

* 0317 Part 3
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW)-released information for local
government with Indices of Ingestion Restriction prepared by Nuclear Safety
Commission.

Japanese language only.

http://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/houdou/2r9852000001558e-img/2r9852000001559v.pdf

For inquiries, please contact: QandA@aesj.or.jp