{"id":558,"date":"2011-10-02T22:52:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T13:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=558"},"modified":"2011-10-02T22:52:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T13:52:07","slug":"no-radiation-detected-in-foodstuffs-in-matsumoto-and-nagano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/earthquake-related-updates\/no-radiation-detected-in-foodstuffs-in-matsumoto-and-nagano\/","title":{"rendered":"No Radiation Detected in Foodstuffs Harvested in Matsumoto and Nagano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great harvest season has come! Thank God. This year we are worried about radiation. Did the nuclear power plant accident by the 3.11 Quake effect Matsumoto, which is 300km far from Fukushima?<br \/>\nNagano Prefecture inspects foodstuffs (vegetables, fruits, grain(rice\/wheat\/barley\/soba), meat(beef\/deer), milk, river fish, tea, wasabi) harvested in Matsumoto and Nagano area and NO RADIATION (radio iodine nor radio cesium) WAS DETECTED after April 21. Especially, rice &#8212; Japanese staple food &#8212; was inspected in all 76 cities\/towns\/villages in Nagano Prefecture and no radiation was dedected.<br \/>\nSome of the inspection results (March-August) can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.nagano.lg.jp\/nousei\/nousei\/housyanou\/6.10kensa-en.pdf\" target=new>here<\/a> in English.<\/p>\n<p>This year, fruit (apples\/grapes\/pears) are sweat and tasty because of the hot summer.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_559\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-559\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/yelloi11.jpg?resize=570%2C110&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"110\" class=\"size-full\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beautiful rice paddy just before harvest<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/earthquake-related-updates\/no-radiation-detected-in-foodstuffs-in-matsumoto-and-nagano\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/earthquake-related-updates\/no-radiation-detected-in-foodstuffs-in-matsumoto-and-nagano\/\" data-text=\"No Radiation Detected in Foodstuffs Harvested in Matsumoto and Nagano\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great harvest season has come! Thank God. This year we are worried about radiation. Did the nuclear power plant accident by the 3.11 Quake effect Matsumoto, which is 300km far from Fukushima? Nagano Prefecture inspects foodstuffs (vegetables, fruits, grain(rice\/wheat\/barley\/soba), meat(beef\/deer), milk, river fish, tea, wasabi) harvested in Matsumoto and Nagano area and NO RADIATION (radio iodine nor radio cesium) WAS DETECTED after April 21. Especially, rice &#8212; Japanese staple food &#8212; was inspected in all 76 cities\/towns\/villages in Nagano Prefecture and no radiation was dedected. Some of the inspection results (March-August) can be seen here in English. 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