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Von: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]Im Auftrag von Jim Hoerner
Gesendet: Samstag, 19. April 2003 03:32
An: Know_Nukes@yahoogroups.com
Cc: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Betreff: Heineken Restarts Contaminated Brewery
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This tremendous threat to the population was not distributed by Austrian
news agenciens. Though Austria produces enough beer to be able to export it,
the relevant "authorities" did not distribute these alarming news. On the
other hand, who would in Austria drink Heineken???? We have enough breweries
in our country and beer from other countries (Germany, Netherlands, Belgium,
Great Britain....., and even Corona!) is regarded as exotic......
O.K., this is only an introduction to a RADSAFE comment: As far as I
understand from the message, there was a leakage of a mis-treated Cs-137
source in a workshop. O.K., that's it. No connection with normal drift, no
excessive radiation exposure to anybody. So can anybody tell me, why this
message made it to the press!
Franz
Heineken Restarts Brewery Contaminated by Radiation (Update1)
By Nicolas Johnson
Paris, April 17 (Bloomberg) -- Heineken NV, the world's third- largest
brewer, resumed beer production at its brewery in southern France after it
halted bottling for a week because of radioactive contamination.
The factory, which produces about 5.8 million bottles of Heineken, Amstel
and other beer brands on average each week, restarted filling bottles and
kegs on Monday, the company said.
``In principle there's no risk,'' said Corinne Goff-Lavielle, a spokeswoman
for the Amsterdam-based brewer.
A leak occurred in a repair room at the brewery on April 7 after a
maintenance person incorrectly handled an instrument containing cesium-137,
a radioactive metal widely used in devices to detect liquid flow in pipes
and tanks.
The leak was noticed two days later and local firefighters sealed off the
area to avoid further contamination.
``There's no possibility of contaminated beer,'' Goff- Lavielle said earlier
this week.
Measures of the most-exposed personnel showed ``weak internal contamination
not requiring any particular medical attention,'' France's Nuclear Safety
Authority said when it announced the leak on Monday.
Heineken's brewery is located in Marseille and supplies the south of France.
It has the capacity to produce 100 million liters annually.
Consumers are paying more attention to drink-production incidents after
benzene was found in Source Perrier SA mineral water in the U.S. in 1990,
prompting a worldwide recall. In 1999, pesticides detected on cans of
Coca-Cola Co. soda were linked to illness in 250 Belgian and French
consumers, prompting a ban on the beverages from several countries and a
recall by Coca- Cola.
The largest single source of cesium-137 in the environment came from fallout
of atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons in the 1950s and 1960s, according
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Web site. Nuclear-reactor waste
and accidental leaks such as from the meltdown of the reactor at Chernobyl
in the Ukraine also release cesium-137, the Web site says.
More than 25,000 radioactive sources are used in industry in France, the
nuclear safety authority said. While it considers the Heineken incident
``minor,'' it wants to use the event to raise awareness.
Last Updated: April 17, 2003 08:19 EDT
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