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> It is not safe to eat mushrooms from the local forests and every wild animal shot has to be scanned for radioactivity before being allowed to be eaten (and of
by piotrjurkiewicz 10y ago
> It is not safe to eat mushrooms from the local forests and every wild animal shot has to be scanned for radioactivity before being allowed to be eaten (and often enough they have to be destroyed).
What a bullshit. Please provide an official source for this claims.
Mushrooms in the Central Europe were contaminated, but only for a first few months after the disaster.
- codewritinfool 10y agoNot authoritative, maybe, but there's this: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/radioactive-boars-are-roaming-around-germany-180952586/?no-ist http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/radioactive-boars-a... and this: http://qz.com/258731/radioactive-wild-boars-still-run-wild-in-germany-28-years-after-chernobyl/ http://qz.com/258731/radioactive-wild-boars-still-run-wild-i... Both say the contamination comes from mushrooms.
- _ph_ 10y agoHere is the link to the federal office for radiation protection: https://www.bfs.de/DE/themen/ion/umwelt/lebensmittel/pilze-wildbret/pilze-wildbret.html https://www.bfs.de/DE/themen/ion/umwelt/lebensmittel/pilze-w... It is Ceseium-137 which still contaminates mushrooms and all animals regularly eating those. Occasional consumption is possible but not recommended. And that is 30 years after Chernobyl.
- pasbesoin 10y agoI was in Munich months after the disaster. A great deal of uncertainty, in the public. I remember one particularly scary item: Wild mushrooms from Eastern Europe, e.g. Poland. Only, you didn't have to go that far to have real risk. At that time, some measurements had mushrooms concentrating relevant radioactive isotopes by circa 400 times, IIRC. Weather patterns and geography created particular hot spots in the more immediate area. For some reason, the Tirol sticks in my mind, for one.