Japan Nuclear Radiation In Hawaii Milk At LEAST 600% Above Federal Drinking Water Limits
The Intel Hub
By Alexander Higgins - Contributing Writer
April 11th, 2011
Statement From Alexander On Hawaii Milk Testing 2033% Above Federal Drinking Water Limits
Title of article now represents the minimum percentage that the radiation found in Hawaii is over EPA standards.
New EPA milk samples in Hawaii show radiation in milk at 800% above limits for Cs-134, 633% above limits for Cs-137 and 600% above EPA maximum for I-131 for a total of 2033%, or 20.33 times, above the federal drinking water limits.
New readings have also been posted for Phoenix AZ with milk being above the federal limit and Los Angeles with milk being slightly below the limit for Iodine.
Montpelier VT milk has tested positive for radioactive CS-137, above about 2/3rds the EPA maximum and Spokane WA milk testing less than half the limit for i-131.
A reader of my blog recently posted a YouTube video of my article on food contaminated with Japan nuclear radiation being sold on store shelves in California stores.
Japan Nuclear Radiation Found In Food Being Bought In California Stores
As reported live last night on the Intel Hub radio show and again today on The Alexander Higgins Show, Japan nuclear radiation including i-131, Caesium 134 and Caesium 137 are now being detected in a wide variety of foods being bought on store shelves in California. In the first food chain tests made public radioactive contamination was found in spinach, strawberries, topsoil, grass, and milk.
Of the isotopes detected, radioactive iodine has a half-life of 8 days outside of the human body and 100 days inside of the body. The C-134 ha a half-life of 2.0652 years and the c-137 has a half-life of 30.17. C-135 with a half-life of over 2.3 million years is not reported as detected.
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/04/08/japan-nuclear-radiation-food-boug…
Radiation in Milk in USA
http://opendata.socrata.com/Government/Milk-RadNet-Laboratory-Analysis/pkfj-5jsd
Out of curiosity, I followed the link on the Radiation in US milk to see what the latest milk samples from the EPA contained and found the following.
Japan Nuclear Radiation In Hawaii Milk 2033% Above Federal Drinking Water Limits
The Federal drinking water limit is 3 pCi/l and the data clear shows the new Hilo, Hawaii milk simple contained radiation at the following levels:
| Isotope | Half-life | % Above Federal Drinking Water Limits |
|---|---|---|
| Cs-134 | 2 years | 800% |
| Cs-137 | 30 years | 633% |
| I-131 | 8 days (100 days inside the human body) | 600% |
| Total: 2033% ABOVE EPA MAX |
Here’s the actual data set itself:
You’ll also notice the following:
- Phoenix AZ Milk I-131 at 3.2 pCi/l – Above EPA Limit
- Los Angeles CA Milk I-131 at 2.9 pCi/l – Slightly below EPA Limit
- Montpelier VT Milk CS-137 at 1.9 pCi/l
- Spokane WA Milk i-131 at 0.77 pCi/l
Listen To The Intel Hub Radio Rebroadcast
So much for expert after experts saying we will only see traces of radiation and none at harmful levels in our food supplies.
In case you didn’t know, it has already been reported that radiation has been reported in the drinking water in 14 US cities.
The highest previous levels of radiation reported was Little Rock milk being 3 times the limit and Philadelphia drinking water at 73% of federal drinking water standards.
Obviously, as the video above points out radiation has been detected in the water, milk and food being sold on store shelves in California.
Editors Note: We are well aware that the EPA levels are gauged for yearly exposure but the idea that it is somehow safe to be way above accepted levels for at least 2 weeks is ludicrous.
UPDATE: All comments in regards to the 2033% number are completely irrational or outright lies. Let me put it this way, if its not 2033% total then ITS 800% OVER for Cs-134, 633% over for Cs-137 and 600% over for I-131. THIS IS WAY OVER THE LIMITS REGARDLESS OF HOW YOU LOOK AT IT!
The symbol for caesium is Cs. C is carbon. The half-life of any radionuclide (radioactive substance) is exactly the same inside or outside the body. Now let me make a few points. First of all, danger from fallout comes from 1) fine particles of the fissionable materials (dust) such as isotopes of uranium or plutonium (dust from an explosion), and 2) fission products, which are at an atomic level and may be millions of times smaller than a dust particle. Fission products are given off continuously by a fission reaction, even if no explosion generates dust. If you breath in a dust particle it may become lodged in a breathing passage, where it destroys tissue around it. Fission products such as I-131 or Cs-137 or Sr-90 are carried by the blood and taken up selectively by different tissues or organs. Any radioactive substance is far more dangerous when breathed into the lungs or incorporated internally into body tissues, than exposure to external radiation. Last but not least, effects are cumulative and it seems likely that much of the world will be exposed to elevated levels of fission products for a long time, so low levels are dangerously deceptive.
half life means that roughly 1/2 of the mass of the radioisotope sample in question will decay into something else in the given time. in many instances, it decays into other radioisotopes with their own half lives. an estimate of 10 times the half life is used by environmental scientists to approximate when very small quantities of a radioisotope have diminished to a negligible level. that’s probably where the roughly 100 day figure for radioiodine in the body came from. it’s only a crude approximation and has no validity in biological terms. radiation effects are cumulative and some people are much more sensitive to radiation poisoning than others, particularly infants. radiation measurement is a tricky science and it’s easy to overlook trace amounts of extremely toxic substances. southern Utah residents were exposed to high levels of radioactivity in the ’50′s from above ground atomic bomb testing. there followed an epidemic of cancers, immune system disorders, and birth defects. the same things happened in the Marshall Islands and Australia due to bomb testing. Radiation effects persist for generations as observed in Japanese Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb victims and their families. the media are notoriously bad at reporting on science; corporations and governments want to minimize public concern to avoid financial liability. the lack of adequate Environmental Protection Agency radiation monitoring equipment is a stark example of this ongoing and entrenched conflict of interest.
Hi there,
What annoys me (I’m based in New Zealand) is that consumers aren’t being told to AVOID CONSUMPTION OF CONTAMINATED DAIRY PRODUCTS as it is critical to your avoiding the effects of radiation poisoning. We had an expert on TV here in NZ giving advice to one of our citizens in Japan and avoiding dairy was top of his list, second came avoiding inhailation of radioactive particles. Take care my US friends.
Blessings from NZ.
Your link is messed up …go here instead http://opendata.socrata.com/Government/Milk-RadNet-Laboratory-Analysis/pkfj-5jsd
F$$$ UC Berkeley and the rest of the Establishment liars. You want their stats? Consume their coverups ad nauseum, drink up bro, your free to pick your poison.
But as for Me and My House, we will listen to impartial, truth seeking third opinions and non MSM whores.
…Lets talk again in a year after the cumulative doses have wreaked their toll.
Thanks Higgins and Intel hub. Great work!
I can see this becoming like the “pollen forecast” on local weather broadcasts.
Please be careful with the information you report. I personally believe that no level of radiation is good or OK, but you have misrepresented the data that has been reported. For example the 18 piC/l of radioactive iodine in the above data is actually less than 1/2 of 1% of the “Derived Intervention Level set by the FDA,” (what ever that means). Maybe you mixed up your units or something, but please don’t go around scaring the sh$# out of people.
you need to provide some major links before you put out claims like this. All the data is right here drinking water standards are 3piC/l so yeah not sure what your talking about.
“While the levels in the rainwater exceed the applicable Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) of 3piC/L for drinking water”
QUOTED FROM EPA SITE. You cant change reality man.
http://www.epa.gov/radiation/japan-faqs.html
131 found at 18piC/L = 600% increase. Its not rocket science. – Yes EPA standards are supposedly for a year(now literally EDITED and changed to a lifetime)(which most real experts dont believe anyway) but regardless its been AT LEAST 600% over the yearly limit for AT LEAST 2 weeks.
AND THAT IS JUST THE 131 thats not the Cesium at ALL. Even if you want to argue about not adding them up to over 2,000 then its at least 600% over. If you think thats a safe level drink away!
Do you not realize that the EPA is rewriting history on a daily basis? The EPA is already attempting to change what is an acceptable level. The EPA is 100% discredited and should not be trusted what so ever and even THEIR data is BAD!!
Response From Alexander Higgins;
1) these are food
(b) Applicable to foods as prepared for consumption. For dried or concentrated products such as powdered milk or concentrated juices, adjust by a factor
appropriate to reconstitution, and assume the reconstitution water is not contaminated. For spices, which are consumed in very small quantities, use a
dilution factor of 10
2) these are FDA Derived Intervention Levels, not EPA Maximum contamination levels. The difference — in a nutshell — the FDA DIL is the harmful short term dosage in which the FDA will pull a product where the EPA standard is set based on the risk of death from cancer over the long term exposure as determined by cost benefit-analysis. My definition of cost benefit analysis: the maximum number of deaths that can occur before the taxes on corporate profits become less than the taxes collected from the people who died if they were still alive and paying taxes.
Quoting Forbes writer (as he notes he was forced to put the FDA statement in his article):
[N]ote that the FDA’s standard for iodine-131 in milk is much, much higher than the EPA’s maximum contamination level, based on the assumption that the milk consumption will be short-term. The pertinent update:
The FDA’s Derived Intervention Level for iodine-131 in milk is 4700 picoCuries per liter. The EPA’s MCL for iodine-131 is 3 picoCuries per liter.
“There are a few reasons that EPA’s MCL for I-131 drinking water is different than FDA’s DIL for I-131 in any given food,” said FDA spokesman Siobhan Delancy by email. “One of them is that EPA assumes a 70 year time period for exposure, so the MCLs are basically for continual, ongoing intake. They are meant to be as low as reasonably achievable while the DILs are meant to assure that no one will reach a specific dose that would warrant protective actions as a result of an event.” …
It’s interesting that FDA goes for 4,700 as an incident dose when EPA goes for 700 as an annual dose… and that EPA does milk testing but FDA does milk decision making. …
When it comes to milk… people should be fully informed, and since the government will not intervene at these levels, they have to make a personal choice.
Technically there is no MCL for just Iodine or Casium, only for Beta and Gamma “beta particles and gamma emitters”, EG radionuclides, which the EPA limit is 4 rems per year.http://water.epa.gov/drink/contaminants/index.cfm. However, in the actual regulations specific concentrations are given for I-131 and Caesium, classifying both with 4 millirem dose equivalent of 3 pCi/l
Again, quoting McMahon from Forbes:
Yes, David, I know. Very complicated to explain. EPA lumps these gamma and beta emitters together under one collective MCL, so if you’re seeing cesium-137 in your milk or water, the MCL is 3.0 picocuries per liter; if you’re seeing iodine-131, the MCL is 3.0; if you’re seeing cesium-137 and iodine-131, the MCL is still 3.0.
Here’s a somewhat historic EPA document that speaks directly to that issue:
Although not having a 4 mrem per year equivalent level specified in the current drinking water regulations as do tritium and strontium-90, the compliance monitoring scheme indicates that an iodine-131 level of 3 pCi/L is the MCL compliance level (presumably derived from the NBS Handbook); the ANPRM indicates that 700 pCi/L is the 4 mrem/year equivalent.
via Drinking Water Criteria Document for Beta and Gamma Emitting Radionuclides
Be advised that document won’t open in older browsers.
And here’s a current EPA faq that repeats the same 3 pCi/L MCL for iodine-131:
http://www.epa.gov/radiation/japan-faqs.html#rainwater
If we lump together the three radionuclides in that Hilo, Hawaii reading, we get 61 pCi/L. Alarming? [NOTE From Alex: Alarming indeed, and this is exactly how I reported it] How about that recent Boise rainfall sample: 468 pCi/L. [Another NOTE From Alex: How did we miss the 468 pCi/l at 15,600% above Federal limits]
The reason we shouldn’t be alarmed, EPA says, is that these are short-term, temporary exposures and the MCL assumes long-term exposure.
Also… no radiation is safe period, and EU’s acceptable leve;s are way lower than ours
After reading this and other statements I think there is only one sure way of escaping any bodily damage due to radiation exposure in the various ways described: STOP BREATHING, EATING AND DRINKING. And do this for the extended half-life of the radiation causing materials.
On second thought, we the world’s human population consisting presently of the homo sapiens species, need to get our act together and wash away in any way we can the causes of this and undoubtedly other following disasters. I mean we need to change our ways, politically and economically. We need to think and think hard…
In other words don’t wake anyone up to the fact that there might be a real danger here until their hair is falling out, they are bleeding through their pores, gums, nose and they are vomiting and feeling nauseas right?
Know any reason why they aren’t testing for isotopes Y-88, Sr-90, Rh-102, or Ru-103? Or are they impounding this data?
its really really terrible,plz be stronger Japanese.
dude…percentages don’t work that way.
if the price of 99 cents a loaf bread skyrocketed by 800%, the price of steak from $5 to $30 (600%) and ramen noodles (25 cents) increased by 700%, you can’t say your total grocery bill rose by 2100%.
have you guys heard of like, a weighted average?
the lack of quantitative training in journalists these days appalls me.
I literally have it RIGHT on this post and in the comments twice that if you do NOT add the limits up then they are at LEAST 600%. THAT IS NOT ADDED UP. PLEASE READ
As a resident of Hawaii, I am sorry to report that when I got caught in the rain a few weeks ago, my back and arms started burning and itching. A few days ago, I put just my hands in the rain and they starting burning instantly.
Also, the Kauai radiation monitoring station, manned by civilian scientists (NOT the EPA) reported SPIKES in radiation as high as 456 CPM on 6/22/11. (http://radiationnetwork.com/Message.htm) Don’t believe anything the corp/gov/media/military/propaganda says about what is or is not safe for you! Use your intuition and common sense!
Thanks guys for all your reporting on this (and many other) issues.
Mucho mahalos. MSW
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News Update:
Fukushima deadly hot particles hit U.S., Health right violation (video)
West Coast, Seattle, Boston hot spots: Cancer to dramatically increase yet public kept in dark
On Monday, it was confirmed that the major human right to health is being violated in the United States by the public not being advised that Fukushima hot particles contaminated the United States and that West Coast cancer are due to surge, based on scientific analysis by Scientist Marco Kaltofen of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) of radioactive isotopic releases from Fukushima who presented his findings at the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting in Washington DC as reported by nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen.
“Mr. Kaltofen’s analysis confirms the detection of hot particles in the US and the extensive airborne and ground contamination in northern Japan due to the four nuclear power plant accidents at TEPCO’s Fukushima reactors,” according to nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen of Fairwinds.