Radiation is being found in tap water in the U.S. The EPA is declaring that tap water is safe, but not everyone is accepting the government’s reassurances. The Physicians for Social Responsibility has insisted that there is no safe level of exposure to radionuclide’s, despite the fact that we encounter them naturally:

“There is no safe level of radionuclide exposure, whether from food, water or other sources. Period,” said Jeff Patterson, DO, immediate past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility. “Exposure to radionuclide’s, such as iodine-131 and cesium-137, increases the incidence of cancer. For this reason, every effort must be taken to minimize the radionuclide content in food and water.”

via Physicians for Social Responsibility, psr.org

We should be washing vegetables in reverse osmosis water. Especially big leafy vegetables like spinach because it can absorb contaminates.

In France the CRIIRAD, a French research body on radioactivity is advising pregnant women and infants against “risky behavior,” such as consuming fresh milk or vegetables with large leaves. The CRIIRAD says the information is not limited to the situation in France and is valid to other European countries as the level of air contaminations is currently the same in Belgium, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.

Data for the west coast of the U.S. which received the Fukushima radioactive fallout 6-10 days before France, shows the levels of radioactive iodine-131 concentration are 8-10 times higher there according to the CRIIRAD.

Please do your own research about this issues. With the nuclear plant in Japan still having problems and more radioactive material being released by the Fukushima Daiichi plant we should all be taking precautions.

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