The fishing company Loki Fish based in Seattle, US, has tested radiation levels in its fish, as customers were concerned about the safety of eating fish from the Pacific Ocean after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, reports The Seattle Times.
All seven stocks of salmon were tested for the radionuclides associated with the nuclear plant failures in Japan: Cesium 134, Cesium 137, and Iodine 131, the company reported on its website.
Of the seven samples, five did not register detectable levels of radionuclides.Two of the samples registered at trace levels – Alaskan Keta at 1.4Bq/kg for Cesium 137, and Alaskan Pink at 1.2Bq/kg for Cesium 134.
There were no detectable levels of iodine-131 in any samples.
“To put those numbers in perspective, the critical limit set by the FDA for either Cesium-134 or Cesium-137 is 370 Bq/kg, far above the amount found in Loki’s Alaskan Keta and Pink salmon,” Loki Fish said.