UN Investigator Calls for More Testing of Fukushima Heath Impact
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Japan should expand its testing for cases of cancer from the Fukushima nuclear disaster beyond the thyroid screenings that have yielded 75 potential instances so far, a United Nations rights investigator said.
The thyroid cancer tests being conducted in Fukushima prefecture are based on a narrow understanding of the health effects of radiation, Anand Grover, a UN special rapporteur who surveyed the events surrounding the March 11, 2011 disaster, said today in Tokyo.