Thursday 14 November 2013

Important information for New Zealanders

"The silence from the NZ government on this issue, and the lack of testing by the NZ National Radiation Laboratory of consumer goods being imported from contaminated areas of Japan means that people's health is being put unnecessarily at risk."


Since the meltdowns at Fukushima in March, 2011 there has been a deafening silence, both from government and media. New Zealanders have been totally kept in the dark about the dangers to health of ionising radiation from the disaster. Even as the mass media starts to selectively reveal the truth of what is happening in Japan an almost total silence continues in this country.

Almost the sole exception to this silence have been a couple of programmes made by Wayne Brittenden on the Sunday programme on Radio New Zealand.

To listen go HERE and HERE

The New Zealand government is showing a criminal neglect by keeping silent on Fukushima and indeed refusing to supply answers about this in questions to parliament.

According to Wayne Brittenden the New Zealand fishing industry is REFUSING to test fish for radiation.

Individual New Zealanders are making real efforts to bring this to the attention of New Zealanders, but with the silence of both government and media, with limited success.

I urge you to share this information with everyone you know.

It is essential that New Zealanders be informed about what they are facing

Many thanks to David MacArthur and Kevin Hester

----Seemorerocks



The Health effects of radiation from Fukushima on New Zealand children




Submission to Health Select Committee Inquiry into How to Prevent Child Abuse and Improve Health Outcomes for 0- 3 Year Old Children
Prepared on behalf The New Zealand Journal of Natural Medicine by Jonathan Eisen and Katherine ehalf The New Zealand Journal of Natural Medicine by Jonathan Eisen and Katherine Smith, editors



1) To update knowledge of what factors influence best childhood outcomes from before conception to 3 years, and what are significant barriers.

2) What practical improvements can be made to health, education, social and other services, targeted at the preconceptional period that will improve infant and child outcomes (including the maintenance of a healthy body weight).

3) What practical improvements can be made to antenatal maternity services so that children ‘at risk’ of adverse health outcomes are identified early, monitored appropriately, and followed through to achieve best outcomes.

4) What practical improvements can be made to post-natal services (including the interface between lead maternity caregiver, Plunket and primary care) to ensure best outcomes for children.

5) What, if any improvements can be made to the ‘well child’ services (especially hard to reach children).

What practical improvements or interventions can be made to achieve optimal outcomes for children from the 6 week post-natal periods to 3 years of life, with particular reference to health services but not excluding education, social, housing, justice and other determinants of health?

This document will respond to the first question posed by this Inquiry. (The other questions will be addressed in a follow up submission.)

1) To update knowledge of what factors influence best childhood outcomes from before conception to 3 years, and what are significant barriers.

The disaster at the nuclear power plants in Fukushima has been estimated to have released more radiation than the accident at Chernobyl in the 1980s, and unlike Chernobyl, which was entombed in concrete to stop ongoing radiation releases, the ruined power stations at Fukushima are still leaking.

The Northern Pacific has been contaminated, and considerable amounts of radionucleotides have been carried on the winds across to North America. This has resulted in an increase in the general death rate as well as a significant increase in infant mortality in North America


Any strategy that the government may adopt with the aim of giving children the best start in life by optimising their care beginning from the preconceptual period, until they are three years old, needs to take account of the fact that we are now all living in an environment that exposes us to considerably more ionising radiation than we were even 18 months ago.

The full facts of the magnitude of the disaster at Fukushima have not been reported in mainstream media in NZ. This is a significant barrier to helping the NZ population reduce the health risks associated with increased exposure to ionising radiation. People will not take steps to protect themselves from a hazard like ionising radiation if they do not know that they are exposed.

Ionising radiation may be considered an "invisible" pollutant, as it cannot be seen, heard, discerned by touch etc without specialist equipment such as a geiger counter.

The silence from the NZ government on this issue, and the lack of testing by the NZ National Radiation Laboratory of consumer goods being imported from contaminated areas of Japan means that people's health is being put unnecessarily at risk.

Especially the health of our children, who are more susceptible to the effects of ionizing radiation than adults.

NZ urgently needs to start testing all products coming from Japan and turning away those products that are contaminated.

Moreover, as there have been reports of radiation spikes that suggest that NZ may also have been hit by some of the fallout from Fukushima

It is vital that the New Zealand public be informed about the radiation issue and how to take steps to protect their family's health. :

It is particularly important for young people who have not yet had children to be informed about this issue since taking steps to minimise their exposure to ionising radiation and reduce its impact on their health may make the difference between their being able to conceive healthy children or suffer pregnancy losses or have children with health problems in the years to come.

In brief, foods that contain high levels of antioxidants (such as green leafy vegetables such as kale, and carrots provide a measure of protection from ionising radiation since part of the damage from exposure to radiation is that the damage that is done to cells in the body can start a free radical cascade which injures even more cells than were originally "hit" by the radioactive particles. Antioxidant nutritional supplements such as vitamin C and E can be helpful in mitigating the effects of radiation, however herbs and supplements that contain complex molecules such as the polyphenols found in green tea and grape seed extract are more effective than low doses of single nutrients.

It is also possible to use nutritional supplements to reduce the body's uptake of radioactive elements. (For example, it is standard medical practice to give a large dose of iodine to people who have been exposed – or will shortly be exposed – to high levels of radioactive iodine from, for example, a nuclear power plant disaster. The large dose of iodine saturates the thyroid gland and prevents this gland from taking up radioactive iodine which could otherwise accumulate in the thyroid and cause cancer.) Similarly, radioactive strontium has an affinity for the bones and may be taken up into the bones at a higher level by people who are deficient in calcium and magnesium.

In a supplementary submission we will discuss some of the scientific evidence for using antioxidants to reduce the adverse health effects of ionising radiation as well as practical measures that people can take to help reduce absorbtion of radioactive elements and reduce existing body burdens of radioactive compounds (such as chelation therapies.)

We will also address how these measures may be integrated into a preconceptual care programme and discuss which of these measures should be considered for integration into the care of pregnant women.


This is the report on radiation levels in New Zealand sited above. Measurements are being taken on a regular basis from Christchurch.

Report: “High level radiation cloud” detected passing over New Zealand city — Peaks reached an “incredible” 1.89 microSv/h


ENENews,
29 January, 2012

Title: Radiation Cloud Detection Dunedin New Zealand
Source: Peter Daley
Date: 29th January 2012




I have been in contact with a person In New Zealand who just sent me information of a detection of a high level radiation cloud passing over Dunedin New Zealand. You will find a copy of his email correspondence below. This chart is the recorded background radiation level during this event. Visual observation saw peaks reach an incredible 1.89 uS/Hr ! [...]


SOURCE: sccc.org.au


Read the full report  HERE

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