Tokyo water unsafe for babies, farm food blocked | Bangkok Post: news

Tokyo on Wednesday warned that radioactive iodine over twice the safe level for infants had been detected in its tap water due to the disaster at a quake-hit nuclear plant northeast of Japan's capital.

A evacuee watches as Norio Tsuzumi (C), vice president of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of Japan's crippled nuclear plant, and his employees bow to apologise at a shelter in Koriyama in Fukushima.

The news compounded fears over the impact of the crippled Fukushima power station that also led the government to ban farm produce from areas near the charred complex, where emergency crews were battling to prevent a meltdown.