Dear Supporter,  

Tuesday March 11th marks the 14th anniversary of Fukushima Daiichi, a horrific nuclear and industrial accident which is still spreading radioactive waste to the Pacific Ocean and throughout Japan. The situation is only getting worse, and despite the geographical distance, what happens in Japan impacts what happens in the U.S. Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network Coalition supporters are calling FDA this week at 1-888-SAFEFOOD and telling Kyle Diamantes, acting head of the Human Foods Program, to direct FDA to act on the Citizen Petition FFAN filed 12 years ago to his agency. (There's a method to the madness, as they say. Read on..)

March 12th marks 12 years since the FFAN coalition filed a Citizen Petition legal document to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to establish binding safeguards to protect our food supply and health. The U.S. allowable levels for Cesium 134 and 137 are 12 times less protective for adults and 24 times less protective for children here than in Japan. That must change.

As FFAN project director, I wrote a letter last week to the new Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressing the FDA’s response interim letter to our 2013 Citizen Petition stating the agency needs more time (and nothing since) and why it is crucial that the issue of radioactive waste in food be included in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) strategy.  You can read the letter linked to the press release here. This is a "silver lining" opportunity because our concerns have a better chance to finally be addressed by FDA.

The formation of the  MAHA Commission is a direct result of President Trump's February 13th executive order to research the causes of cancers and chronic conditions caused by environmental impacts on food (some of which may not have been previously addressed) and then create a strategy of action to address them. There is plenty of scientific evidence to support our petitions.

Over the years FFAN has hosted several petitions on the issue, including the one you signed here at Change.  Please take few minutes to take further action in honor of the 311 anniversary.  

Call FDA at 1-888-SAFEFOOD and tell them to respond to the 2013 Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network Coalition petition to lower the current allowable levels of Cesium 134 and 137 in our food. 

Comment to the FDA petition here.

Sign the companion petition here.

Thank you for your support! 

Sincerely,

Kim 

Kimberly Roberson 

Project Director, Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network

Affiliated with National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy

ffan0311@gmail.com