Doc Talk: Have you eaten sushi recently? What you need to know about radiation risk

People consume 10 per cent of their daily radiation exposure, and potentially seafood tainted by radioactive tritium from the Fukushima plant water falls into this category. PHOTO: PEXELS
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SINGAPORE – I visited Japan in late September.

I arrived 10 days after the release of the first batch of treated radioactive water from the now-defunct Fukushima nuclear plant.

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