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“Some samples contained more than double the legal limit of the hazardous substance radioactive iodine.
“The discovery increases fears of food and water safety nearly two weeks after the devastating earthquake and tsunami which killed thousands and damaged a nuclear plant in Fukushima, leading to a radiation leak.
“Residents of cities in Japan northeast earlier had already been advised not to drink tap water due to elevated levels of radioactive iodine, which can cause thyroid cancer. Until Wednesday, levels found in Tokyo tap water had been minute, according to officials.
“A water treatment centre in central Tokyo that supplies much of the city’s tap water found that some water contained 210 becquerels per litre of iodine 131.
“city official said: “Under government guidelines, water containing a radioactive substance of more than 100 becquerels per kilogram should not be used for milk for babies.”
“Earlier in the day, Naoto Kan, the prime minister, instructed the governor of Fukushima prefecture to order residents not to eat leaf vegetables grown in the prefecture after radioactivity far beyond legal limits was found in 11 varieties.
“Some 82,000 becquerels of cesium were found in a variety of vegetables, 164 times the legal limit, as well as 15,000 becquerels of radioactive iodine, more than seven times the permissible level.”
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