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Higher-than-normal radiation levelsnike running shoes  in the wake of the Japanese nuclear disaster do not represent a risk for Ontario residents, Energy Minister Brad Duguid said Tuesday.

"I understand that there is and there has been some detection of some minor increases in radiation," Duguid said. "But it's not anywhere close to something that would be of any impact in terms of human health. And it's not something that Ontario residents need to be overly concerned about."

The issue was raised Tuesday at Queen's  nike cheap mens acg sandalsPark by provincial New Democrats, who pointed to Environmental Protection Agency reports from Vermont and other U.S. states that show elevated contamination in milk and drinking water in recent days.

NDP leader Andrea Horwath called the news "disconcerting."

Duguid did not say where and when the increased radiation was found.

"They have had similar readings, I believe, in the United States," he said. "In terms of specifics of those readings they may be available on the federal websites."

The energy minister's office distributed information from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and Health Canada on normal background radiation and some radiation that may "have been carried by the wind" from Japan to this country.

Ontario's chief medical officer of health, Dr. Arlene King, played down the impacts of the elevated levels.

"Based on current information, I am of the view that there is no health risk for Ontarians from the damaged nuclear facility in Japan," she said in a statement issued late Tuesday.

Earlier this month, the Canadian Nuclear nike cheap mens acg sandals Safety Commission reported that monitors in Ontario, New Brunswick and British Columbia have all detected minute traces of radioactive iodine suspected to be from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.