14 DAY TRIAL // There is little – if any – need to worry about the health risk associated with eating seafood and fish that have come in contact with Fukushima-derived radioactivity, a recent research has revealed.
Back in 2012, the news that radioactivity had been detected in tuna fish swimming close to the Californian coastline made headlines.
At that time, it was said that the source for this radioactivity had to be Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi power plants.
Furthermore, some argued that people could also become exposed to it should they eat seafood and fish caught in the Pacific Ocean.
Specialists writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences now say that, according to their investigation, the contaminated fish and other marine creatures inhabiting the Pacific Ocean contain far too little radioactivity for people to fear eating them.
What's more, the researchers maintain that the animals themselves do not run any significant health risks because of the doses of radioactivity that they might come to ingest. Newswise quotes Professor Nicholas Fisher, who wished to stress the following:
“In estimating human doses of the Fukushima-derived radioactive cesium in Bluefin tuna, we found that heavy seafood consumers – those who ingest 124 kg/year, or 273 lbs., which is five times the US national average – even if they ate nothing but the Cs-contaminated bluefin tuna off California, would receive radiation doses approximately equivalent to that from one dental x-ray and about half that received by the average person over the course of a normal day from a variety of natural and human sources.”
“The resulting increased incidence of cancers would be expected to be essentially undetectable,” the professor went on to say.
Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi power plants discharged whopping quantities of radioactivity into the Pacific Ocean following the plant's being hit by both an earthquake and a tsunami.
This happened on March 11, 2011.