Safe places to eat, non contaminated ingredients. (11 posts)

  • Profile picture of nobby nobby said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    I hate to ask but perhaps someone can recommend SAFE places to eat that source their vegetables and ingredients from non contaminated areas. Its hard to know whats safe nowadays. Certainly spinach is off my menu.

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  • Profile picture of Glyn Meredith Glyn Meredith said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Spinach is on my menu, nobby, for the simple reason that there is almost no chance of you finding any of the contaminated variety on sale anywhere. You are about 1,000 times more likely to get food poisoning from eating dodgy shrimp or yesterday’s curry than you are to suffer any health problems from eating spinach.

    Ask Popeye …

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  • Profile picture of lentildude lentildude said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Ibaraki Natto;

    Being vegetarian and living off natto, its a real problem not seeing any natto on the shelves but apparently the best natto comes from Ibaraki. If anyone knows an alternative natto source confirmed nowhere near Ibaraki please post. thnx

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  • Profile picture of neko neko said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    lentildude, Tokyu hands sells natto bacteria in the kitchen section. You can make your own natto in your apartment but would be stinky :)

    Looks like they now found contamination in Shitake mushrooms too!!

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  • Profile picture of lentildude lentildude said 1 year ago:

    In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster it is crucial to understand the protective nature of foods in order to protect yourself and your family against radiation exposure. Research on food based radiation xposure after the Chernobyl disaster can give us insight on what foods can reduce radiation exposure from our diet. We also have research from Hiroshima after the atomic bomb attacks that has highlighted the protective nature of fruits and vegetables in the diet against cancer. Research following previous nuclear disasters gives us insight into the measures we can take to protect against the damaging effects of radiation exposure.
    The Swedish Government monitored the radiation level of foods following the Chernobyl disaster. They found that most animal based foods including meat, dairy, and fish had higher levels of radioactive substances than fruits, vegetables, grains, and potatoes. Eating plant based foods can reduce exposure to radioactive substances by avoiding concentrations of these substances in animal fat and tissues. A plant centered diet in the midst of radiation exposure provides lower levels of radioactive substances as well as fiber, antioxidants, and phytochemicals that have the potential to reduce cancer rates associated with radiation exposure.
    A study published in Russia reviewed the protective nature of dietary fiber against radiation. Researchers used concentrates of dietary fiber from lemon peel and beet root among other plants and found that the fiber did have radioprotective properties. The authors concluded that concentrated dietary fiber can be used in human nutrition to accelerate the elimination of nuclides or radioactive elements.
    Whether or not the Fukushima plant meltdown materializes into a global disaster, the simple change to a strong plant diet can provide significant protection and health benefits for you and your family. Consuming a broad spectrum of fruits and vegetables can provide powerful protection against the ravaging effects of radiation exposure.

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  • Profile picture of neko neko said 1 year ago:

    What about nori contamination?? I was shocked to read the Greenpeace article, now am looking to buy and stock up on seaweed manufactured before March.

    Greenpeace says high radiation in Japan seaweed

    Environmental activist group Greenpeace said Thursday it had detected radiation far above legal limits in seaweed samples taken from the ocean off Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.

    Greenpeace, which sent its Rainbow Warrior flagship to take samples of marine life and water, called on Japan’s government to undertake comprehensive radiation testing of seaweed along the Fukushima coast.

    Initial tests of 22 seaweed samples collected at distances up to 65 kilometres (40 miles) out to sea from the plant “registered significantly high levels of radioactive contamination,” the group said.

    Ten seaweed samples showed levels of over 10,000 Bequerel per kilogramme, the group said.

    It did not specify if the contamination was from iodine-131 or caesium-137, the official safety limits for which are 2,000 Bequerel per kilogramme and 500 Bequerel per kilogramme respectively.

    “From May 20, fishermen along the coast will begin harvesting seaweed for public consumption,” said Ike Teuling, a radiation expert with the international environmental and anti-nuclear activist group.

    “Our research indicates a significant risk that this seaweed will be highly contaminated,” he said according to a statement.

    Teuling warned that “radioactive contamination is accumulating in the marine ecosystem that provides Japan with a quarter of its seafood, yet the authorities are still doing the very little to protect public health”.

    Greenpeace said it and independent laboratories were conducting detailed analysis of seawater, fish, shellfish and seaweed collected either from the ocean or coast and expected to release the full results next week.

    The group earlier complained it had not been granted permission by Japan to conduct marine testing within the country’s 20 kilometre (12-mile) territorial waters.

    Greenpeace Japan executive director Junichi Sato said earlier this week that “as the government has limited our research to the area outside of territorial waters, we could not achieve what we originally set out to do”.

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  • Profile picture of neko neko said 11 months, 1 week ago:

    I found this article about random testing of spinach bought at Tokyo market.

    http://www.ncc.go.jp/jp/information/sokutei_02.html#02

    It is basically all positive saying that no radiation found from a random sample but did not say what areas the produce were from or producers. Kind of suspiciously over positive article. Would prefer if they could be more specific about product tested and origin.

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  • Profile picture of neko neko said 10 months, 2 weeks ago:

    This is an up to date (July) result of govt tests on food from different prefectures around Japan. You can see spinach and tea is still a concern with positives showing up in tests.

    http://www.mhlw.go.jp/english/topics/2011eq/dl/03July2011_Sum_up.pdf

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  • Profile picture of admin admin said 10 months, 1 week ago:

    Contaminated beef
    Radiation fears mounted in Japan on Wednesday after news that contaminated beef from a farm just outside the Fukushima nuclear no-go zone has been shipped across the country and probably eaten.

    Meat from 11 cows at the farm was found at the weekend to be contaminated with up to six times the legal limit of caesium and the farmer has since admitted he fed the animals straw exposed to radioactive fallout.

    The readings of up to 3,200 becquerel per kilogramme were taken at a Tokyo meat-packaging plant, after earlier external readings at the farm had picked up no sign of radiation, according to officials.

    The farm in Minamisoma, just beyond the 20-kilometre (12-mile) exclusion zone, had already sold six cows in May and June. Their beef was shipped across the country and much of it is believed to have been consumed.

    Of the total amount, 1,438 kilogrammes (3,165 pounds) of beef were distributed to shops and restaurants in 12 prefectures, including Tokyo and Osaka, a Tokyo metropolitan government official said.

    The government sought to reassure the public that there is no immediate threat. “Eating part of it in small amounts will not have a large impact on your health,” said Goshi Hosono, minister in charge of the nuclear crisis.

    Nonetheless, the case has stoked concerns about food safety, more than four months into the ongoing Fukushima nuclear crisis, after high readings have also been detected in some green vegetables, seafood and green tea.

    Food testing remains largely under the control of prefectural officials, who admit that they can only carry out spot checks for contamination.

    Fukushima prefecture officials said the farmer had stated in a questionnaire that the cows had not been fed contaminated straw, but tests later showed the straw contained caesium 56 times the legal limit, Kyodo News reported.

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  • Profile picture of Frank Frank said 8 months ago:

    Looks like buying from the Yokota airbase is safest place to get food – assuming you have a friend at the base. Pre quake stocks have been snapped up by their commissaries. They have been scrutinizing far more than the normal Japanese “supa”.

    “Yosuba Milk, located in Hokkaido prefecture, is sending commissaries about 50 percent of the products that they received before the earthquake and tsunami; Coca-Cola Japan is sending 80 percent of the items commissaries carried before the event, she said.

    “One company we received product from before the earthquake and tsunami, Daiichiya Seipan Bread Company, is still not producing, and we do not know when they will be ready to start supplying us again,” she said.

    Some of the factories whose products were banned from bases after the disaster also haven’t started operations yet, Hanfelt said.

    “The final ones (to be approved to supply to U.S. bases) won’t depend on us,” she said. “It will be when they are ready because some were more affected that others.”

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    http://www.stripes.com/news/ban-on-some-japanese-foods-being-lifted-at-commissaries-1.155135

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  • Profile picture of admin admin said 2 months, 3 weeks ago:

    see this thread for some updated safer places to eat

    http://www.alttokyo.com/groups/places-to-eat-204127219/forum/topic/safeer-radiation-free-food-restaurants-in-tokyo-list/

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