Alaska seafood is free of radiation stemming from Japan's 2011 tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster. That was the report from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation to the state Senate Resources Committee at a recent hearing.
Citing information from the federal Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Health Canada, Marty Brewer, the DEC's director of Environmental Health, said Alaska, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia "all have demonstrated . . . no levels of radiation that are of a public health concern."
Brewer added that only very small amounts of radiation have been detected from the reactor source. "There has been detection of cesium that is reportedly from Fukushima but at miniscule levels," she said.
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