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Doc Talk: Have you eaten sushi recently? What you need to know about radiation risk

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We swallow 10 per cent of our daily radiation exposure. Potentially, seafood tainted by radioactive tritium from the Fukushima plant water falls into this category.

People consume 10 per cent of their daily radiation exposure, and potentially seafood tainted by radioactive tritium from the Fukushima plant water falls into this category.

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Wong Seng Weng

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SINGAPORE – I visited Japan in late September.

I arrived 10 days after the

release of the first batch of treated radioactive water from the now-defunct Fukushima nuclear plant.

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