Thursday, November 6, 2008

The Mysterious Radioactive Cheese Grater

(WXYZ) - Scientists say a common kitchen utensil that was discovered in a Michigan scrap yard is radioactive. So, the Action News Investigators wanted to know how the contaminated cheese grater got into this country in the first place.

ACTION NEWS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER HEATHER CATALLO REPORTS IN THE VIDEO PLAYER ON THE RIGHT

[Heather]
Every time a truckload of scrap metal arrives at Genessee Recycling in Flint… the metal is screened by radiation monitors.

In August… the alarms went off… sending workers scrambling with hand-held radiation detectors to find the contaminated item. Surprisingly… their detectors led them to this simple kitchen utensil.. a cheese grater.. stamped with the words “Made In China.”

3 comments:

Cathy_of_Alex said...

Yeah, but the great news is that it melts the cheese for you at the same time you grate!

Vincenzo said...

My microplane seems to do that occasionally!

swissmiss said...

All they are trying to do is be resourceful by recycling their radioactive by-products or spent uranium as handy kitchen tools.