Radiation-Tainted Food Detected Leaving Japan

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A shipment of fava beans had been contaminated, officials report, as smoke drove workers from the country's overheating nuclear plant.
Mon Mar 21, 2011 09:29 AM ET
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A new column of smoke rising from an overheating nuclear plant in Japan drove workers out of the smoldering site on Monday, denting hopes for a breakthrough in the post-quake atomic crisis.

Meanwhile, authorities in Taiwan checking food for radiation on Sunday found a shipment of fava beans from southern Japan had been contaminated, an official said.

The radiation was found on 30.8 pounds of fava beans from Kagoshima, said Tsai Shu-chen, an official with the Food and Drug Administration.


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1. This article doesn't make much sense

The beans were grown in Kagoshima, which is about as far from the Fukushima Daiichi complex as you can get in Japan. Second, Kagoshima is a whole lot closer to Taiwan than Tokyo-Narita airport, it doesn't make sense to ship beans all the way to Tokyo, then have them practically double back to Taiwan, especially since a boat from Kagoshima to Taiwan wouldn't take so long. Also, there are several airports much closer to Kagoshima (Fukuoka, Kansai, Nagoya) that would be more likely relay points for shipment to Taiwan. And the beans would have been packaged, and stored inside during their brief stay in Narita, if indeed, that is where they went. I have a very hard time believing this story.