This is going to be a very long term problem. While traveling in the Mekong delta almost ten years ago, people still talked about problems related to Agent Orange in the food chain. And yes, you still saw young kids who suffered from the side effects of that awful chemical concoction. After Chernobyl, many food items from the Ukraine and nearby countries had problems. Even today, many people in France (myself included) won't eat products from that part of the world. During the wild mushroom season, you can always pay much less for mushrooms from the Ukraine.
How many more decades before it will be safe again?
Radiation has been detected on fava beans imported from Japan to Taiwan, Taiwanese officials said Sunday, in what could be the first case of contamination in Japanese exports.
The disclosure came a day after Japanese officials said radiation in low amounts had been found in spinach and milk produced near the damaged Fukushima nuclear power complex in northeast Japan that has been leaking radiation since being damaged by an earthquake and tsunami March 11.
An official from Taiwan's Department of Health said the radiation detected on the Japanese fava beans was slightly higher than naturally occurring trace levels.
