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Intéressant de lire un article sur l'arrivage de thés du Japon et l'accueil qu'on lui fait: batterie de tests avant de les mettre en vente s'ils montrent patte blanche. J'avais déjà repéré les tests que la préfecture d'Ibaraki avait été chargée de faire. Et Uji est sauf, selon Takada san, en date du 23 mai. Il est d'ailleurs question de compenser les producteurs qui ont subi des pertes causées par des "rumeurs" à la mi-mai.

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 2 juin: The ban covers tea leaves from parts of the Tochigi, Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures and all of Ibaraki prefecture, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare said, Kyodo News agency reported. http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_675443.html

9 juin:

The problem is that, unlike other vegetables, tea leaves are processed before going on sale and are not consumed directly. When fresh leaves are dried, the removal of water concentrates the radioactive elements to five times the former level.
But when they are infused in a tea pot the amount of radiation in the resulting brew is between 30 and 45 times less, according to the agriculture ministry.
The Shizuoka government wants the 500 becquerels limit to apply to the less intensely radioactive fresh leaves. But the health ministry argues that consumers might swallow dried leaves in a cup of tea, as well as in products derived from tea, such as green tea ice cream, and that the 500-becquerel limit for fresh vegetables must also apply to tea.
The high reading was discovered not by the tea grower or the local government, but by a mail order tea company in Tokyo that carried out its own measurements.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/japan_green_tea_contaminated_with_Nu2JsMTr0IiZlFnvlsAKcJ#ixzz1Oob83Ihr