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发帖数: 4936 | 1 担心海盐被污染 中国人抢盐退潮 韩国人抢购盐zz
儘管日本东部的洋流活动，预料会将福岛辐射污水带向太平洋，但在日本西边的韩
国，民眾仍非常担心福岛泄漏的海洋辐射物，会污染朝鲜半岛的海盐，引发抢盐潮，3
月的盐销量高去年同期一倍，盐价最多更较去年同期升了50％。
大韩盐业组织称，2万餘吨海盐仓存，在20多天间售罄，意味每天售出近1000吨，
而平常日均销量不过50至100吨。负责人说﹕「海盐销量大增，相信是消费者担心海水
受辐射污染而抢购。」暂时未知盐价抢高，有否影响韩国泡菜的醃製供应和成本。
韩国最大海盐生產商Daesang负责人昨说﹕「上月的海盐销量较去年同期多130％，
海盐需求显著增加。」但该公司强调，他们在全罗南道拥6.6万平方米盐田，没有供应
忧虑。韩国西岸全罗南道新安郡的盐田，供应全韩62％海盐。
儘管官方和专家均称，朝鲜半岛没有辐射危险，但担心的民眾还是从超市或网站选
购面罩、海藻、海带、紫菜，减少外出，甚至减买韩国海產，务求避免或减少受辐射污
染。30岁徐琪禎说﹕「如今虽戴口罩踏单车，但坦白说，还是不安的。」一名42岁主
妇称，在当局验出空气有极微量辐射物后，某日见到读小三的孩子淋雨，即时「大吃一
惊」，之后便要子女戴面罩、穿长裤长袖衫外出，惟依然未放心。这阵子，住宅区的游
乐场或是校园运动场，都少见了孩子玩耍。 | h***y
发帖数: 4936 | 2 棒子自己的英文报道
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2934391
A salt rush as consumers fear Japanese radiation
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47049;확보 잰걸음
April 05, 2011
Park Jae-seon, a homemaker from Gwanak District, southwestern Seoul, was
surprised when she visited her childhood friend’s home last week. While
helping out with the cooking, she opened a pantry to find the entire shelf
filled with salt in packages of all shapes and sizes.
“There was bamboo salt, sea salt, salt in larger grains, smaller grains,”
she remembered. Hearing from her friend that many homemakers in the area had
been in a salt-buying binge, Park rushed out that day to her neighborhood
store - to find there was salt to be begged or borrowed.
“The 5.5 kilogram [12.1 pound] and 8 kilogram packages were all gone, and
the new shipments won’t come in until next Tuesday,” she said. “No one
buys this much salt at this time of the year. The whole thing is very
alarming.”
Sales of salt have skyrocketed in Korea as news of radioactive material
leaking into the sea outside the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima,
Japan, drive local consumers to shore up their salt supply for fear of
contamination.
Prices of some salt have risen to levels matching those found at the height
of kimchi-making season.
And sea salt, which has the added advantage of iodine, used to treat humans
against thyroid cancer in case of exposure to radiation, has seen its entire
back inventory sold within the last 20 days.
E-Mart, the largest discount store in Korea, reported yesterday that its
sales of salt increased by 130.1 percent on-year between March 15, when news
of radiation from Japan began to get alarming, and April 3.
Consumers are trying to secure salt supplies before radiation leaking into
the sea in Japan spreads to neighboring countries. The Yomiuri Shimbun
reported yesterday that deep seas 30 kilometers (19 miles) away from the
Fukushima Daiichi power plant were found to be contaminated.
As fear of radiation spreads, the demand for sea salt has seen a particular
uptick. According to the Korea Salt Manufacture Association (K-Salt), some
20,000 tons of sea salt produced in the South Jeolla area, kept as back
inventory from last December and January, completely sold out in the last 20
days.
Sea salt contains iodine, unlike factory-processed refined salt - and is in
higher demand by consumers who believe the substance keeps radioactive
iodine from accumulating in the thyroid.
Seventy percent of sea salt produced in Korea comes from South Jeolla. This,
in turn, has driven up the price of sea salt. Between March and April of
last year, a 30 kilogram bag of sea salt cost around 7,000 won ($6.44), as
salt is usually in low demand during the spring. However, as of late last
month, the same bag cost 13,000 won, an 86 percent increase and matching
prices seen during prime kimchi-making season.
But experts warn that the amount of iodine in salt or products like seaweed
is not enough to protect against serious doses of radiation.
“Normally, spring is when salt prices go down, but prices are rising
rapidly,” said Park Moon-oh of K-Salt. “If such hoarding continues, it
could affect future salt prices.” | h***y
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