Publications by authors named "Hideyuki Oinuma"
J Environ Radioact
October 2020
Article Synopsis
- In Japan, milk must contain less than 50 Bq/kg of radiocesium, and dairy cattle diets should have less than 500 Bq/kg to comply with shipping standards following the Fukushima nuclear accident.
- Two experiments showed that feeding cattle Prussian blue (PB) significantly reduced the radiocesium concentration in their milk, with concentrations lowering from 16.4 to 8.6 Bq/kg-fresh in the first experiment and from 24.3 to 4.2 Bq/kg-fresh in the second.
- The findings indicate that PB can effectively decrease radiocesium transfer from diet to milk, suggesting that using absorbents like PB in cattle feed could help keep milk radiocesium levels below safety standards
