14 July 2011, officials from Fukushima Prefecture discovered that a second farm, in Asakawa Town, shipped off as many as 42 internally contaminated cows.
The discovery was made as local officials expanded their testing of locally grown feed for cows.
On top of the discovery that more contaminated cows, from other farms, were shipped off to market, the latest hay samples revealed increasing cesium contamination. The latest tests show 97,000 becquerels per kilogram of cesium! Previously the highest reading was 75,000. The national safe limit is 500.
The contaminated cows from Asakawa Town, were shipped to Yokohama, Tokyo, Sendai and Chiba. They were shipped between 08 April and 06 July.