l JJJ LASSIJ IJ 1J Authority NA 8n q3t CONFIDENTIAL DEPARTMENT OF STATE Memorandum of Conversation DATE SUBJECT Radioactive Tuna PARTICIPANTS Mr Cribbett Food and Drug Administration Mr Looney U FW COPIES TO S il - Mr Spiegel - Mr Finn U FW - Mr Herrington July 6 1964 NA n Mr Cribbett informed me that a radioactive tuna had been discovered earlier today in a California cannery by the cannery's own monitoring group This is 1 lthe third contaminated tuna found among Japanese tuna exports to the United States J A1-lsince the bomb tests of March The fish a thirty-five pound albacore recently 1 arrived from Yokohama on the Aeema Maru it was pa rt of a lot of 1 1 406 fish designated White Fuji it had been taken from cold storage in Japan on May 20 K Contamination was largely in the sk ull and bones aa in the case of the earlier two specimens indicating contamination through ingestion Radioactivity was from •6 to a milli-roentgens I indicated to Mr Cribbett that the Department would watch developments but would not at this time inform Embassy Tokyo u n ney Jed 7 7 64 CONFIDENnAL