Nota: mentre negli USA si sta aprendo alla ricerca della verità, ancorché scomoda, nella vecchia Inghilterra...tutto bene, madama la marchesa.

Radioactive discharge 'has not affected food'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Environment/2000-10/VODpulltheotherone071000.shtml
By Andrea Babbington
7 October 2000

Food safety officials have confirmed that they undertook checks on milk and grass after a "higher than normal" radioactive discharge at a nuclear power station.

But the Food Standards Agency claimed the discharge, which occurred at Sizewell B near Southwold, Suffolk, last week, had had no effect on food.

Environment Agency experts are also investigating the incident, which is said to have taken place during reactor refuelling and maintenance.

A Food Standards Agency spokesman said it decided on the checks after learning of a "higher than normal release of radioactive iodine from the plant".

The spokesman said the main concern for public health was the possibility of the iodine entering the food chain by milk via cows grazing on contaminated pastures.

But he said that based on the results of the agency's tests, it appeared food had not been affected by the incident and there had been been no risk to public health through food."

The Food Standards Agency plans to continue to monitor radioactivity levels in the area as part of a routine monitoring programme.

An Environment Agency spokesman said it had been told of the discharge by Sizewell's operators, British Energy Generation.