Radiation found in food as workers scramble to curb nuclear crisis

Radioactivity will burrow into food chain for years to come.

As workers scrambled to curb a nuclear crisis Saturday, the Japanese government is looking into halting the sale of food from farms near Fukushima plant after abnormally high levels of radiation were found in milk and spinach.

Very small amounts -- far below a level of concern -- of radioactive iodine were also detected in tap water in Tokyo and most prefectures near the Fukushima Daiichi plant damaged by last week's monster earthquake and tsunami.

Six members of the emergency crew at the plant have been exposed to more than 100 millisieverts of radiation per hour, the equivalent of getting 10 chest x-rays per hour, plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Company said.

Source: cnn.com