Radiation monitor matcha green tea powder 10-5-2012 | Organic Slant
In October 2012, organicslant.com purchased Matcha stone ground green tea powder in a store in the burbs of Cleveland, Ohio U.S.A. The test was done on 10-5-2012. Three ten-minute tests were done on background radiation, and three ten-minute tests were done on the Matcha green tea powder. Wonder if the Radiation Alert Inspector is picking up either radioactive Iodine or Cesium in the powder. Are the isotopes being picked up from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plants in Japan. Seeing that cesium was detected on leaves in 2011, could contamination have made it's way onto the tea leaves and weren't detected. Their are thousands of tea farms that were effected by the fallout of the meltdowns. The numbers point to the fact that the Matcha powder may contain man-made isotopes like Cesium or Iodine. We maybe unknowingly ingesting radiation to receive the health benefits from this plant.
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Go outside and get some lawn clippings and test it the same way and post.
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Tea from Uji is still safe. So is the tea from Kagoshima. i personally stay away teas harvested from eastern side of the country. Do not trust war piggy Abe government though.
China teas? Don't even think about buying them. They are lead contaminated. -
my kids and I love tea. especially green tea. my mom had me on it growing up . my kids drink it cold. is thier a safer tea. we eat as much organic as possible. with everything happening to our environment is anything safe?
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Kirkland Ito En is a great option for brewed tea but I prefer my organic matcha http://amzn.to/1PfpXpy
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Dumb question, can't this shit still happen here? I know we have power plants in the U.S., soo... How long till shit goes down here? No matter how careful you are your working with something unstable, sooo ya
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I will never buy, and I will avoid buying, Japanese green tea. Shame. The madness of nuclear power.
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I try to stay away from Japan products. Fukushima is scary! There are plenty of great organic teas from China. I love Touch Organic Matcha and other teas.
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Very confused if you are saying this amount of radiation is bad? doesn't Japan have the healthiest and most long living people?.
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How about a followup on this?
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Hey dude, try checking your own back yard with that, did you know the numbers that you were getting off that you can find in your own back yard? You have to test EVERYTHING for you get get a base reading, radiation beyond popular belief can be found in nature both do to humans and as well as the eath producing it itself, but really, if you live in a city those numbers are actually normal and sometimes higher and people don't even know it, it's in every day life, it's when someone thinks they know what they are doing is when people freak out... As well as check your dates and calabrashion on your detector, they CAN and WILL go bad, I'm not saying that there wasn't activity on the tea, BUT I am saying you can find those numbers EVERYWHERE
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nice try chinaman.
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you sir, are hilarious. Thanks for the great laugh.
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very biased testing. Why dont you fucking test all the bananas in the world and deem them inedible because they all contain traces of radiation. If you are really concerned about the radiation levels this low, we all should probably stop eating everything on this planet. Such propaganda against Japanese products? Japan is not confined to Fukushima alone. And yes, which country has the highest life expectancy? Yes, you guessed it right, the country which drinks the "radiation contaminated" Matcha!!
And FYI matcha grows in the Kyushu region which is the south of Japan and Fukushima is in the fucking north. Please stop spreading such videos which are watched by people who dont think twice to say "Oh, I'm never buying a product from Japan because its contaminated with Radiation". Talk about organic, can you please concentrate on the healthiness of the products in America before you point out the minor flaws of other countries. Period -
Weary means you're tired.....
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Helen Caldicot is saying to not drink or eat anything from anywhere in Japan and she did mention Matcha too. Good enough for me.
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this is very hard to understand. But thank you for doing the test anyway!
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First, what is the radiation levels of Bananas and Brazil nuts? Both are known to be radioactive and bag of Brazil's will set off Radiation monitors in power stations.
Also just how much radiation exists in the matcha crop pre 2011. In the area where your tea is produced, and elsewhere?
Secondly, how is your instrument calibrated? To see radiation levels correctly your monitor must have a certified calibration certificate, preferably by NIST or in Britain the National Physics laboratory, or the Japanese labs. What is the uncertainty of your instrument, and there for your readings.
Merely saying that there is higher than background levels is hysterical scare mongering. How do you know that radiation is Caesium 137? I think the test for that is pretty sophisticated, and unless you are physicist I think it unlikely for you to have the right equipment.
You are far more likely to be affected by radiation in the rocks around you, or potassium in low sodium salt and standing outside in the sun! Not to mention the radiation from flying, or hospital/medial equipment, not to mention the various toxins found in foods.
Sort but your hypothesis doesn't wash. -
I wanted to see if u can review Two Hills Organics matcha tea. I wanted to see if it has radiation since it comes from Canada.
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on the GROUND. You didn't explain ANY of this. I think YOU don't know what all that means either! I think you got ma hold of that graph thing and just stuck it on some macha cuz, ya know, Japan had a nuclear power meltdown, blah blah. I think YOU need to stop being so PARANOID!!!! You're a WACKO
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So is it absolutely unsafe or not?
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