The breast milk of about 10,000 mothers residing in Fukushima Prefecture, home to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, will be tested for radioactive contamination, prefectural officials said Thursday.
Many breast-feeding mothers have expressed concern that their milk is contaminated by radioactive materials released into the air and sea by the Tokyo Electric Power Co. plant since it was crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
A month after the crisis started, a citizens' group said radioactive iodine in small amounts was found in the breast milk of four women living east or northeast of Tokyo, 220 km from the plant. (Japan Times)
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