SPPH in the news: For Erica Frank, a professor in UBC’s school of population and public health, the lack of monitoring for radiation in B.C. fish following the Fukushima nuclear-reactor disaster is also a concern. Although Frank, a former U.S. president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, said the risk from consuming local fish is low, she doesn’t understand why the CFIA isn’t rigorously monitoring the situation on a regular basis, calling it a “policy problem”. “People are anxious about this,” Frank said in a phone interview. “I don’t think they need to be, but what they do need to be anxious about is the fact that in North America we have an awful lot of nuclear power plants of our own, and this is something that has to change. We need to think about this. My specialty is preventive medicine, and this is about as fundamentally preventive as you can get.” straight/life/705321/cuts-canadian-food-inspection-agency-risk-food-safety
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 23:10:51 +0000