The company made the controversial claim that the infant milk was " within safety limits " and that it " didn't pose a health risk ", despite a potentially large number of infants suffering internal radiation through ingesting the contaminated milk who were presumably already exposed to the external radiation originally unleashed in the March disaster.
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Women s groups have been particularly scathing and effective in condemning the government s casualization of radiation exposure " the increase of the permissible exposure rate from 1 to 20 mSv, its inadequate attention to " hotspots " outside of the official evacuation areas, its calculation only of external radiation while ignoring internal radiation, and its spotty food supply oversight ".