Yahoo japan auctions, Fear of Importing radiation? Options

[njccmd2002]

what are your toughts..

[yarik83]

Just because item was irradiated... it does not make it radioactive. People are concerned about food products being contaminated because radiation does its damage on a cell level in living organisms. More importantly it is public knowledge that many electronics emit some levels of radiation. Cell phones, microwaves, tvs, even cars. In most cases radiation levels are so minute that they do not cause any significant impacts so approved by fda/cdc.

Currently production has slowed in japan because some toyota factories and warehouses have been impacted and toyota's main priority right now is to rebuild its plants so they could produce more parts as soon as possible. For time being they have scaled down production all around the world because shipment of parts have been interrupted but in time that will be fixed as well.

Realistically speaking this is what needs to happen to make car parts hazardous to health. They need to be in direct contact with a nuclear fall out and shipped with radioactive dust to then cause some health concerns. Outside of that radiation is very much a part of sterilization and is wildly used during packaging so it is reasonably safe.