Cesium measured from American green nuts

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Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2012-08-22 11:53.

I have eaten pistacios from last year's crop from California and Iran.

The much sabotaged Iranian nuclear project concerns me more than California fruits, flakes and nuts. Who knows the radionuclide contamination level in Iranian foods?

While the CA numbers are low, I do not like it. So mostly, this year the purchased nuts/bushes/berries of choice have NOT been Pistacios OR any produce from California.

Also skipping California wines vintage 2011 ... but will probably drink vintage 2012, though NOT preferentially.

There are LOTS of healthier food/drink choices than ANYTHING from Japan & California. The former for a LONG time and the latter for a year or 10.

It is not the low AVERAGE numbers that get you. It is the anomalies due to multiple variables.

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can brawm comment on this?

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2012-08-22 05:31.

Yikes! Any input, brawm? Thank you!

Low levels

Submitted by bandstra on Tue, 2012-08-28 22:44.

The level of Cesium-137 (9.54 Bq/kg) is close to the minimum detectable activity for those measurement (probably ≈8 Bq/kg judging from the Cs-134 MDA) and is very low.

For comparison, there is about 300 Bq/kg of naturally-occurring potassium-40 in pistachios.

Mark [BRAWM Team Member]

Brawm could run a radiation

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2012-08-22 09:36.

Brawm could run a radiation test on California produced pistachio's ,but they won't! I don't see a nuclear engineering university looking high and low for contamination were the hot strawberrys even revisited?

Not worth the time

Submitted by bandstra on Tue, 2012-08-28 22:44.

Please see our strawberry test results. Strawberries we tested did indeed show detectable levels of radionuclides from Fukushima, but these levels were very low and we did not see anything after May 2011.

Mark [BRAWM Team Member]