The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the detection of radiation in food after the earthquake that damaged the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan is a problem more serious than originally planned. "It's obviously a serious situation," he said from Manila Peter Cordingley, spokesman for the Office for the Western Pacific of WHO.
"It's much more serious than anyone thought in the early days, when we believed that this type of problem could be limited to 20 or 30 miles," he said. The radiation detected in vegetables, powdered milk and contaminated water are raising fears in the region, although officials have said that Nippon levels are not dangerous.
The Japanese government has banned the sale of raw milk and spinach in four prefectures after finding high levels of radiation. Cordingley said the WHO has no evidence that contaminated food from Fukushima Prefecture has reached other countries. The authorities have registered in tap water levels of radioactive iodine three times the legal limit in a town situated 40 kilometers from the Fukushima nuclear plant, according to the government statement, which also explained that this finding does not imply an imminent risk health.
In the town of Litatemura, with about 4,000 inhabitants, iodine levels have been located in the 965 becquerels per kilogram of water, compared to 300 becquerels per kilo established as the limit beyond which it is not advisable to drink water. Referring to the radioactivity was detected at the plants grown in the prefectures of Gunma, Tochigi (center) and Chiba (center-east), the agency has ensured that not a health threat, although beyond normal limits.
In these prefectures, located south of Fukushima, the excessive radiation has been detected in spinach leaves. Thus, Gunma authorities have ordered local cooperatives to discontinue the shipment of horticultural products and endorse the return of those already sent. The biggest problem is the spinach in some localities in Ibaraki (East Central), exceeding 27 times the legal levels of radioactivity.
However, the authorities have been delegated to local governments the decision to cease trading voluntarily possibly contaminated food. 
"It's much more serious than anyone thought in the early days, when we believed that this type of problem could be limited to 20 or 30 miles," he said. The radiation detected in vegetables, powdered milk and contaminated water are raising fears in the region, although officials have said that Nippon levels are not dangerous.
The Japanese government has banned the sale of raw milk and spinach in four prefectures after finding high levels of radiation. Cordingley said the WHO has no evidence that contaminated food from Fukushima Prefecture has reached other countries. The authorities have registered in tap water levels of radioactive iodine three times the legal limit in a town situated 40 kilometers from the Fukushima nuclear plant, according to the government statement, which also explained that this finding does not imply an imminent risk health.
In the town of Litatemura, with about 4,000 inhabitants, iodine levels have been located in the 965 becquerels per kilogram of water, compared to 300 becquerels per kilo established as the limit beyond which it is not advisable to drink water. Referring to the radioactivity was detected at the plants grown in the prefectures of Gunma, Tochigi (center) and Chiba (center-east), the agency has ensured that not a health threat, although beyond normal limits.
In these prefectures, located south of Fukushima, the excessive radiation has been detected in spinach leaves. Thus, Gunma authorities have ordered local cooperatives to discontinue the shipment of horticultural products and endorse the return of those already sent. The biggest problem is the spinach in some localities in Ibaraki (East Central), exceeding 27 times the legal levels of radioactivity.
However, the authorities have been delegated to local governments the decision to cease trading voluntarily possibly contaminated food.
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