Why no butter test/s

books.google .. Milk quality

http://www.forachange.net/browse/1684.html

It also important to teach people the steps that can be taken to reduce the dangers. For instance, processing milk to make cheese or butter decreases the Caesium 137 and Strontium 90 content by 10 times or more. Also, using mineral fertilizers on farms significantly reduces the number of radioactive atoms in both plants and animals.

http://www.rpii.ie/Site/Publications/chernobyl-its-effect-on-ireland.aspx

page 31 has some info on radioactivity concentrations in various milk products. Butter and cheese seems very low compared to whey powders and RML powder (??). Powedered milk looks bad as does regular milk compared to butter/cheese.

http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=4748272

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/44749578/DISTRIBUTION-OF-RADIOSTRONTIUM-AND-RADIOCESIUM-IN-MILK-AND-MILK

A study was conducted to determine whether radioactive milk manufactured into butter, cheddar cheese, and cottage cheese would produce a less contaminated food. The results show a low degree of transfer of strontium and cesium from whole milk to butter. In the case of cheddar cheese and cottage cheese no marked reduction in the transfer of strontium was noted. On the other hand, the transfer of cesium was markedly reduced in both cheddar and cottage cheese. It is concluded that manufacturing techniques can be developed making it possible to utilize most of the potential food value of radioactive contaminated milk in a form lower in radionuclide content than the parent raw milk. (Public Health Eng. Abstr., 42: No. 9, Sept. 1962)

http://www.neuro.fsu.edu/~dfadool/ChernobylReport.pdf

search doc for 'butter' for some interesting numbers... "Processing of milk to butter reduces cesium by 20–30 times"

So I feel a bit better about butter after the fukushima fallout :) Of course now the Japanese are going to burn all the radioactive stuff and send that crap east to our farms and watersheds :( I can't believe they can get away with that. They should bury it for 1000+ years as we would have to... Boycott Japanese goods unless they change their plans!! Might seem harsh but WTF?!!