Continued Monitoring?

Are consumer items from Japan still being monitored for radiation at the US (and Japan) border, presently...August 2012?

No, they are not! Obama

No, they are not! Obama ordered a stop to all radiation checks months ago. It is solely up to you to do your own checks.

Good luck with that...

Good luck with attempting to do your own testing.

As BRAWM member Mark has explained, testing for Fukushima fallout with a Geiger counter is actually pretty useless. A Geiger counter can't do spectroscopy which is what is needed to dig the Fukushima fallout signal out of a sea of natural radioactivity. Mark states this in the following post:

http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/218/brawm-question-testing-food-geiger...

Geiger counters are rather blunt instruments; they can detect radioactivity but they cannot tell you which isotope is responsible for it. One might detect radioactivity using one of these instruments, but there is plenty of benign natural radiation out there (e.g., where does the 38 CPM of the background test come from?). A Geiger counter would really only be useful for finding contamination in northeast Japan and nowhere else in the world. To find any isotopes released by the Fukushima reactors one needs to use spectroscopic detectors, such as our germanium detectors. But what we have seen in our own measurements is that the amount of radioactivity from the Fukushima accident was very small here on the West Coast, and most traces have long since disappeared from our environment.

Unless you can afford the tens of thousands of dollars needed to purchase a Germanium-based detector that can do spectroscopy, and have the technical acumen in radiation detection; then you are pretty much kidding yourself if you think you can buy a Geiger counter and do your own testing. You're SOL.

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Yes & NO!

It is probably more accurate to state ...

Yes, SOME, perhaps extensive, monitoring is going on. Nice fat files are presumably bulging with interesting data.

NO way in Hell, is the information available to the USA public. FOI requests are futile. SOME information may become available in ~2060, but I doubt it.

Might be 'bad for bidness', so SCRUE-U.

Yes & NO!

No. They are not. And never

No. They are not.

And never were...

BC 8/6/12

Testing is still ongoing but at a lower rate than last year

UCB and other groups continue to check for radiation in milk, water, seaweed, etc...

It may be much harder to tell, now that over a year has passed, but the BRAWM team still reports roughly once a month on any new findings. There has been very little testing in California of products from Japan, BRAWM tries to focus more on products from the California coast. As expected, isotopes that can be traced to Fukushima such as Cs-134 and Cs-137 continue to diminish in all tested samples. In many cases Cs-134 can not be detected at all anymore and Cs-137 (which also comes from US weapons testing & Chernobyl) is present in only trace amounts.

The data is in fact available to the public, but the quantity of under-informed media articles far exceed the number of scholarly research articles on the subject.