UK Established Animal Radiation ‘Controls’ Due To Cesium Contamination

After the meltdown and melt through happened at Chernobyl, dangerous levels of radiation spread far and wide for thousands of square miles, including into areas such as UK, Scotland, Russia, Norway, Belarus and many other countries.
Some countries like the UK established controls on the eating of meat from animals that were in areas contaminated with Cesium radiation. They rules were put in place to protect the public from eating meat that contained over 1,000 Bq/kg of Cesium radiation.  

The following article explains the animal controls in place inside the UK, since Chernobyl exploded. Affected and radioactively contaminated animals could not be exported, consumed or sold inside our outside of these ‘hot’ zones unless they were tested first, and found to be ‘safe’, with less than 1,000 Bq/kg of Cesium radiation.

“Post-Chernobyl monitoring and controls survey reports
The Food Standards Agency is responsible for ensuring food safety by preventing products with unacceptable levels of radioactivity from entering the food chain. Widespread monitoring in 1986 identified food safety concerns from meat from sheep grazing in the affected areas. The Agency manages restrictions on the movement of sheep in the affected areas to protect consumers.
The Agency’s primary concern is to ensure food safety by maintaining these controls, but also remove controls where these are no longer necessary.
Of the 9,800 UK holdings, and more than 4 million sheep, originally placed under restriction following the accident, there are 334 farms that remain under some form of restriction in North Wales, and in Cumbria, only eight farms still remain under restriction. All Mark and Release controls were lifted in Northern Ireland in 2000 and in Scotland in 2010.
The Agency has reviewed the post-Chernobyl sheep controls to assess whether these protective measures are still required to maintain food safety. To inform this review, an assessment has been made of the levels of radiocaesium in sheep within the restricted areas during the summers of 2010 and 2011, and the potential consumer doses if control measures were to be lifted. The survey showed that the levels of radiocaesium rarely exceed the 1,000 Bq/kg limit during the summer months, when levels tend to be at their peak. An assessment of the radiation doses that more highly exposed consumers could receive from eating sheep meat from these farms, shows that the consumer risk is now very low. The assessment report can be accessed via the link below.
The Agency has launched a consultation to seek the views of a range of stakeholders on the removal of the existing post-Chernobyl sheep controls. Details of the consultation and how to respond can be accessed via the link below.
During the review consultation period, and until a final decision is made, the current restrictions on the movement of sheep will remain in place.
Background to the Chernobyl accident
In 1986, an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the former USSR (now Ukraine) released large quantities of radioactivity into the atmosphere. Some of this radioactivity, predominantly radiocaesium-137, was deposited on certain upland areas of the UK, where sheep farming is the primary land-use.
Due to the particular chemical and physical properties of the peaty soil types present in these upland areas, the radiocaesium is still able to pass easily from soil to grass and so accumulates in sheep.
Food safety controls
A maximum limit of 1,000 becquerels per kilogram (Bq/kg) of radiocaesium is applied to sheep meat affected by the accident to protect consumers. This limit was introduced in the UK in 1986, based on advice from the European Commission’s Article 31 group of experts.
Under powers provided in the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 (FEPA), which can be found on the Office of Public Sector Information website via the link below, emergency orders have been used since 1986 to impose restrictions on the movement and sale of sheep exceeding the limit in certain parts of Cumbria, North Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The emergency orders define geographical areas, often termed ‘restricted areas’, within which the controls must be followed. Under the FEPA orders, sheep with levels of contamination above the limit are not allowed to enter the food chain.
A management system known as the Mark and Release scheme operates in restricted areas. Under this scheme, a farmer wishing to move sheep out of a restricted area can have them monitored to determine the level of radiocaesium.
A live monitoring technique is used, where a radiation monitor is held against the sheep, giving a count rate (in counts per second), which is converted to a concentration (becquerels per kilogram or Bq/kg) using a derived conversion factor. To allow for inherent variability in live monitoring results, a pass mark is applied, which has been set so there is only a 1 in 40 chance of a sheep above the limit giving a monitor reading below.
Any sheep that exceed the monitoring pass mark are marked with a dye and are not released from restrictions. Those that pass are allowed to enter the food chain. 

Today however, the government agency in charge of these ‘hot spots’ is has lifted ALL CONTAMINATED ANIMAL CONTROLS, (as of Feb, 2012) despite the fact that animals are still testing in the range of 1,000 Bq/kg of Cesium radiation, and will be for the next 300 years (the half life of cesium, times 10) 
 http://www.food.gov.uk/news/consultations/ukwideconsults/2011/removalpostchernobylsheepcontrol


One of the well known effects of radiation coming out of nuclear plant accidents is to knock down the immune system, making an animal or human more subject to catching all kinds of diseases, including viruses. 

The UK has recently reported an outbreak of Schmallenberg virus. There are numerous reports of deformities and deaths of lambs in the UK and Scotland, which would be expected with these doses of Cesium radiation, as well as from other radioactive substances. 

From a 1996 report; “This month several deformed lambs have been born on the farm. One had no lower jaw, another was missing bones. A third delivered by Mr Roberts’ son, Emlyn, seemed like a solid mass of gristle.We’ve not seen anything like that before,” said Mr Roberts.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/nuclear-cloud-hangs-over-the-hills-1306191….


This matches very well with what happens to animals after a nuclear accident, (as well as human beings). Now let’s fast forward to 2012. 

Feb 1, 2012 – The effects of this ‘virus’ affect about 10% (video above) to 50% (video below) of all of the lambs. The limb and body defects look remarkably like the effects of low level radiation damage. 

Even if this virus is truly causing all of these deaths and deformities, it would be also be a ‘normal’ and  expected effect of low level nuclear radiation reducing the immune strength. 

Our closing question is; are any of these sheep and their offspring that have these deformities and worse, being tested for radiation exposure? Is the virus being found primarily in areas that are also ‘hot’ zones?

Is anyone testing for things like cesium, strontium, plutonium, uranium in the bodies of these dead lambs?

So far at least, the interest of the farmers and government authorities seems to be to get rid of any traces or evidence that low level radiation is impacting animals in any way, rather then exploring in depth the effects of low level radiation on animal health. 



UK Established Animal Radiation ‘Controls’ Due To Cesium Contamination
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/uk-established-animal-radiation.html

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