Salmon farmed in Scotland and Northern Ireland and tested for radioactivity has been cleared as safe to eat by the Food Standards Agency.
The FSA tests checked whether technetium-99 and other radionuclides from Sellafield reprocessing plant in Cumbria were present in the farmed fish. The level found in the farmed salmon was comparable to that previously found in wild fish.
Five of the 17 samples contained technetium. But the FSA said even serious salmon-eaters who ate fish with the highest concentrations of radioactivity would be exposed to an insignificant dose of radiation.
The FSA tests checked whether technetium-99 and other radionuclides from Sellafield reprocessing plant in Cumbria were present in the farmed fish. The level found in the farmed salmon was comparable to that previously found in wild fish.
Five of the 17 samples contained technetium. But the FSA said even serious salmon-eaters who ate fish with the highest concentrations of radioactivity would be exposed to an insignificant dose of radiation.
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