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    July 17, 2011

Nuclear-Contaminated Beef Scare Spreads in Japan

   VOA News
   Photo: Reuters
   A worker operates a forklift, carrying a container loaded with a pile
   of bones of beef, at a wholesale meat market in Tokyo July 12, 2011

   A scare in Japan over beef contaminated with radioactivity spread on
   Sunday, with more areas of the country reporting tainted meat.
   Japanese media say meat from 132 cattle that ate straw contaminated
   with extremely high levels of radioactive cesium has been shipped
   across the country.
   The government is expected on Tuesday to ban all beef shipments from
   Fukushima prefecture, where the Fukushima Number One nuclear plant is
   still emitting radioactivity.
   The government has said there is no immediate health threat from eating
   standard servings of beef.

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