Food safety regulations: What we learned from the Fukushima nuclear accident

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 111, Issue , 2012, Pages 83-99

  Hamada, Nobuyuki ^a   Ogino, Haruyuki ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emergency exposure situation; Existing exposure situation; Food safety regulation; Fukushima nuclear accident; Graded triphasic reference level; Internal radiation exposure

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY EXPOSURE SITUATION; EXISTING EXPOSURE SITUATION; FOOD SAFETY REGULATIONS; INTERNAL RADIATION; NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS; REFERENCE LEVELS;

EARTHQUAKES; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; URANIUM; VEGETABLES;

CESIUM;

CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; IODINE 131; IODINE 132; IODINE 133; IODINE 134; RADIOISOTOPE; TAP WATER; TELLURIUM 132; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CESIUM ISOTOPE; FALLOUT; FOOD SAFETY; IODINE; MILK; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; SEAFOOD; THRESHOLD; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI; URANIUM ISOTOPE; VEGETABLE;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EARTHQUAKE; FISH; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SAFETY; JAPAN; MILK; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SEA FOOD; TSUNAMI; VEGETABLE;

ANIMALS; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; DISASTERS; DRINKING WATER; EARTHQUAKES; FISHES; FOOD CONTAMINATION, RADIOACTIVE; FOOD SAFETY; GEOGRAPHY; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; JAPAN; MILK; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA; TIME FACTORS; TSUNAMIS; VEGETABLES;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84861977450     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2011.08.008     Document Type: Article

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