Radioactive Rice Reported
(N.Z. Preu Association—Copyright) TOKYO, November 6. Radio-active raindrops are believed by a Japanese professor to have contaminated rice- in the Konhi prefecture on Hikoku Island, according to local press reports. Professor Seico Sogabe, of Kochi University, attributes abnormally high radioactivity in the rice to recent hydrogen explosions by the Russians. He said the rice had a radioactivity count of 758 per minute—far in excess of the safety limit of between 30 and 40 counts a minute permitted on foodstuffs by the American Bureau of Standards.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27502, 9 November 1954, Page 10
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88Radioactive Rice Reported Press, Volume XC, Issue 27502, 9 November 1954, Page 10
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