Risky zone: A warning sticker labelled ‘Danger radiation’ is seen on the wall of a kiosk in front of a house next to the Modern Cikande Industrial Estate, where the radioactive isotope Caesium-137 was detected, in Sukatani, Banten province. — AFP
LOCAL authorities have found traces of radioactivity at a clove farm on Sumatra island, a government spokesperson said, as Jakarta expanded an investigation launched after the US health authority detected Caesium-137 contamination of spices from Indonesia.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently said it had detected the presence of Caesium-137 in a sample of cloves from PT Natural Java Spice during screening after the radioactive isotope was also detected in August in a sample of frozen shrimp from Indonesia.
