Local resident Steve Timmons got the last bottle of kelp in the store of natural products Eureka Natural Foods, California, on Tuesday, 15 March 2011.
Although so far there is only the risk of radioactive contamination, nuclear crisis in Japan has given rise to the peak of the U.S. demand for potassium iodide and other cheap drugs that protect against radiation damage.
Despite the assurances of experts that nuclear cloud will not reach the shores of America, the demand for potassium iodide caused emergency supplies in warehouses all three national manufacturers and suppliers of approved Federal list of food and drug administration for use in the United States.
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