Tests find radioactive Cesium in rice farms in Japan

Almost a year has passed since a massive earthquake and Tsunami has ripped through Japan, resulting in the Fukusima Daichi nuclear plant’s triple meltdown. Since then it has been an uphill struggle for Japan to make its food supply free of radioactive contamination. It has been reported that more than a dozen rice farmers in Onami, near the infamous nuclear plant, had their crop tested only to find high level of radioactive cesium in their produce. This has created fresh panic as Onami’s rice was earlier declared safe for consumption by inspectors of Japanese government.

The latest findings of radioactive contamination in rice and that of beef, in a similar incident in July, has prompted the Japanese government to act with alacrity. To win back the confidence of its civil society, the Japanese government has assured a fresh inspection of all 25,000 rice farms in the neighboring Fukusima Daichi nuclear plant. Currently, Japan is trying to fill out the gaps in the prevailing food-screening measures and find out a more effective way of checking food contamination through radioactive substances.