Re: Out to get Dominique?
Originally Posted by
AnnieS
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I think I have made this point already from your article :
"Dr Andrew Wadge, the FSA's director of food safety, said: "Even at the maximum concentrations found by Greenpeace, a person would have to eat 700 portions of salmon a day for a year to reach the annual permitted EU radiation dose."
But on checking, your article is from 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3013406.stm
You trust government over greenpeace? Okay
https://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&sourc...qUCfdr-1GWySQN
Figure 2.5 also provides trend information over time (2004
– 2014) for a number of other permitted radionuclides
and activity concentrations in food. Liquid discharges
of uranium radionuclides steadily decreased (and other
discharges to a lesser extent) over the whole period, whilst
technetium-99 discharges generally decreased overall
(but peaked in 2012). Caesium-137 concentrations in
flounder and salmon showed variations between years
and this was most likely due to natural changes in the
environment. Concentrations of technetium-99 in shrimps
generally declined over the whole period, consistent with
the reduction in technetium-99 discharges from Sellafield.
So sellafield discharges had influence, and is diminishing. But as you can find, dna damage from radiation occurs at any dose.