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Bronwyn Delacruz of Grande Prairie Composite High School in Alberta made her discovery with the help of a $600 Geiger counter her father purchased and the need to complete a science project. She told Metro Canada that she decided to test the radioactivity of seafood—mostly seaweed—because she was shocked to learn that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) stopped testing imported foods in that manner the year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.

“Some of the kelp that I found was higher than what the International Atomic Energy Agency sets as radioactive contamination, which is 1,450 counts over a 10-minute period,” she said. “Some of my samples came up as 1,700 or 1,800.”
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<blockquote data-quote="flipper" data-source="post: 190304" data-attributes="member: 6529">Bronwyn Delacruz of Grande Prairie Composite High School in Alberta made her discovery with the help of a $600 Geiger counter her father purchased and the need to complete a science project. She told <a href="http://metronews.ca/news/calgary/982233/alberta-students-science-project-finds-high-radiation-levels-in-grocery-store-seafood/" target="_blank">Metro Canada</a> that she decided to test the radioactivity of seafood—mostly seaweed—because she was shocked to learn that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) stopped testing imported foods in that manner the year after the <a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=fukushima" target="_blank">Fukushima nuclear disaster</a> in Japan.“Some of the kelp that I found was higher than what the International Atomic Energy Agency sets as radioactive contamination, which is 1,450 counts over a 10-minute period,” she said. “Some of my samples came up as 1,700 or 1,800.”<a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/04/01/canadian-10th-grader-radioactive-imported-seafood/" target="_blank">Canadian 10th Grader Discovers Radioactive Imported Seafood Long After Government Stopped Testing | EcoWatch</a><a href="http://ecowatch.com/news/energy-news/nuclear-energy-energy" target="_blank">Nuclear | Powered by EcoWatch</a><a href="http://ecowatch.com/" target="_blank">EcoWatch | Environmental News, Green Living and Sustainable Business</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="flipper, post: 190304, member: 6529"] Bronwyn Delacruz of Grande Prairie Composite High School in Alberta made her discovery with the help of a $600 Geiger counter her father purchased and the need to complete a science project. She told [URL='http://metronews.ca/news/calgary/982233/alberta-students-science-project-finds-high-radiation-levels-in-grocery-store-seafood/'][I]Metro Canada[/I][/URL] that she decided to test the radioactivity of seafood—mostly seaweed—because she was shocked to learn that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) stopped testing imported foods in that manner the year after the [URL='http://ecowatch.com/?s=fukushima']Fukushima nuclear disaster[/URL] in Japan. “Some of the kelp that I found was higher than what the International Atomic Energy Agency sets as radioactive contamination, which is 1,450 counts over a 10-minute period,” she said. “Some of my samples came up as 1,700 or 1,800.” [url="http://ecowatch.com/2014/04/01/canadian-10th-grader-radioactive-imported-seafood/"]Canadian 10th Grader Discovers Radioactive Imported Seafood Long After Government Stopped Testing | EcoWatch[/url] [url="http://ecowatch.com/news/energy-news/nuclear-energy-energy"]Nuclear | Powered by EcoWatch[/url] [url="http://ecowatch.com/"]EcoWatch | Environmental News, Green Living and Sustainable Business[/url] [/QUOTE]

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