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Feltner said he and his wife planted fruit trees in their own yard, but wonder if it’ll be safe to eat the fruit when they go back home, given widespread contamination and haphazard testing.

Food and Drug Administration is recalling frozen shrimp products for possible contamination by Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope.

The US embassy issued a health alert in August, raising concerns of "widespread contamination of water and soil" in the area.

From BBC

It helps avoid the potential problem of cross contamination and germs from double-dippers and just in general everyone taking from the same plates.

From Salon

People who get their water from small water systems often face more contamination problems.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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