The radioactive cheese grater

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  Posted by chegos@att.net Sun Jun 7, 2009 9:24am PDT

  This gives a way for terrorists to bypass security and kill Americans. This needs to be taken seriously.

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  Posted by Happy Camper Sun Jun 7, 2009 10:38am PDT

  we arent just talkin cheesegraters here, this article is stating many common commodities. im not sure if anyone else knows this but vegetables and nuts like almonds are irradiated here in the USA to try and prevent the growth of bacterias, rather than just keeping their factories clean.

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  Posted by Julie Sun Jun 7, 2009 11:18am PDT

  Here’s a thought, let’s quit talking about it and put out the awareness, here is an example of a awesome made in America company http://www.madeinusaforever.com, and http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/kitchen.html.

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  Posted by ctuna Sun Jun 7, 2009 11:25am PDT

  oh yeah. lets pay americans $37.50 an hour to do basically unskilled work that needy people in other countries will do for $3.00 a day. thats great if you're the unskilled one. then lets pay college graduates(if that means much any more) $15.00 an hour to teach them and supervise. does this sound backward to anyone else? and the gov't doesnt have the funds to check incoming goods for radiation but has lots of money for tea museums, bridges to nowhere, and political payoffs. where the hell is the common sense!!!

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  Posted by JAL Sun Jun 7, 2009 7:03pm PDT

  Saying that US agents don't screen containers, and check for radioactivity is totally bogus and false. Dan Shapely, and thedailygreen do not have all their facts correct. Intensive programs are in place by the Department of Homeland Security, and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). I move cargo of all types, bulk, break bulk, especialy containerized, day in, and day out for a living, on the waterfront, in the largest port in the US. (Which also happens to be a very HUGE target for terrorists). Being on the front lines every day, I can vouch that the various methods of container inspection, (internal visual, active, and passive electronic scanning techniques), has advanced significately in the last decade.

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  Posted by Carol Sun Jun 7, 2009 8:52pm PDT

  I guess they are going to try to take us out one way or another - sad and sickening.

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  Posted by blueg75 Mon Jun 8, 2009 3:59am PDT

  A recent example emerged last summer, when a Flint, Mich., scrap plant discovered a beat-up kitchen cheese grater that was radioactive. The China-made grater bearing the well-known EKCO brand name was laced with the isotope Cobalt-60. Tests showed the gadget to be giving off the equivalent of a chest X-ray over 36 hours of use, according to NRC documents. Estimated to have been in circulation for as long as a decade, the grater likely was four to five times more radioactive when it was new. EKCO's parent company, World Kitchen, of Rosemont, Ill., described the incident as isolated and found no need to issue a recall, spokesman Bryan Glancy said. It was not the only cheese grater found. NRC documents show that another Cobalt-60-tainted grater had turned up in Jacksonville, Fla., in 2006. The reports do not indicate what brand of grater it was or if it was related to the one that surfaced in Michigan.

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  Posted by blueg75 Mon Jun 8, 2009 4:05am PDT

  Great info Jewel! I also discovered other companies by googling "American-made [product]"

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  Posted by Spock Mon Jun 8, 2009 7:04am PDT

  "...there's very little consumers can do to protect themselves ..." ???? The dosimeters and geiger counter I have in our home monitor for me all the radiation in it. When radiation levels climb, I find our the reason (we have in situ uranium miner infestation here, such that our water is continually radioactive). The most certain way to stop all this is for the media to return to real journalism and reporting of real news. The tabloid scum-sucking and much raking with which they supplant real news is due the fact that the public would rather know about someone's - especially one of our "celebrities" - marital whoes, sin, and corruption than what's poisoning our kids and how much the government is stealing.

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  Posted by Captain Crunch Mon Jun 8, 2009 10:18am PDT

  This is just one reason WHY we need to get term limits and or vote EVERYONE in office out of office and take control of our country back. These demons are killing this country and this world with their greed and self interest. We and only we can fix this problem, but we have to stand up and get them out of office and not let them organize teir crimes against humanity while in public office for life. FYI: If you see what the United States Chamber of Commerce demands and makes impossible to enforce like E-verify to allow a slave labor pay base in America by allowing and even helping illegal undocumented workers to take over this country and with NAFTA we are doomed and if we let it go much longer and if we do let it go on then we as a nation of fools deserves to be poisioned. I am including myself in this... We can stop this maddness with unity, but until we do that we are screwed.

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  Posted by sj_redneckid_70 Mon Jun 8, 2009 3:02pm PDT

  SNORE! I know this is an old article, but for anyone reading there is an acceptable limit to the amount of radioactivity get's dumped. Here in America the majority of large metal scrappers have radiation detection instruments at the entrance to detect this level. As long as they work correctly it won't let anything in over acceptable limits. Everyone needs to wake up and get educated on what is done to keep the public safe from radioactivity. As for items from foreign markets, well, save money and eat from a radioactive cheese grater or buy American spend three times more and support our dying economy and country.

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  Posted by n/a Mon Jun 8, 2009 8:02pm PDT

  There should really be no supprise of this. In the cold war days, there was milk with strontinum 90( or something like that.) Now we have radiation everywhere. We won't have to kill off our enemy or them us because we are too busy getting rich dying. I found out after I was told not to come to work, downsizing or firing?, that our sign in shack sat directly over relics of the first A bomb remnants and other nasties. Later and with a new company, we capped the radioactive stuff and guess what, they dumped the rest where the first was. Needless to say, I was pretty mad and a sense of humility hit me. The stuff was our,OUR, radiation. So forget the HIV or Aids, bird or swine flu, cancet or car wrecks, we will probably die at the hands of our own government. Maybe that is why they put a cap on any info for 25 years. But we were told in school to duck and cover. DUCK AND COVER "IF" WE SAW A MUSHROOM CLOUD. If I am right, then we were ducking the boom and getting closer to the bomb. I still remember those silly duck and cover drills but now they seem so funny to me. Who was I ducking from!?

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