Low Levels of Radiation Found in U.S. Milk

This article starts off announcing that low levels of radiation were found in milk in the state of Washington. The FDA says that findings such as this are to be expected in the next few days due to the nuclear crises in Japan. Levels of radiation are supposed to drop quickly, though. For example, Iodine has a half life of only eight days. Levels of radiation are still 5,000x lower than what people would need to get "concerned" over, according to the FDA. The EPA says it will be increasing the monitoring of milk. Sales of spinach and milk from some areas of Japan are blocked, but this should not be hurting the U.S. too much. The amount of radiation some Americans are experiencing is virtually nothing.

Reading the title of this article made me worried. I was thinking about how much milk I drink, and how I could be hurting myself by simply drinking milk, but the article ended up being reassuring. I was glad it explained how minuscule the amount of radiation actually is. I liked that they shared how the sale (or lack thereof) of products from Japan would not affect America too greatly, as they supply less than 4% of imports, and it's mostly processed foods, fruits and vegetables. This article made me think that America looked selfish, however. It made no mention of how people in Japan are doing or dealing with this crisis, which made me sad.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42348512/ns/health-health_care/