Radioaktivity [i.e. Radioactivity] in food in Belgrade city [Serbia] | Radioaktivnost namirnica na području grada Beograda [Srbija]
2010
Vitorović, G., Fakultet veterinarske medicine, Beograd (Serbia) | Mitrović, B., Fakultet veterinarske medicine, Beograd (Serbia) | Grdović, S., Fakultet veterinarske medicine, Beograd (Serbia) | Petrujkić, B., Fakultet veterinarske medicine, Beograd (Serbia) | Vitorović, D., Poljoprivredni fakultet, Beograd - Zemun (Serbia)
The activity concentrations of 40K, 238U, 226Ra, 232Th and 137Cs were measured using the gamma spectrometric method in different food chain samples from the area of the City of Belgrade during the periods May-June 2007 and May-June 2008. Relatively high activities of 40K and 137Cs were detected in the soil. These results indicate that 137Cs is present in the area of Belgrade even 20 years after the nuclear accident in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. However, in the samples of feedstuffs, animal products and bio indicators (meat of wild animals and fish), activity concentrations of primordial radionuclides and 137Cs were low and below the detection limits. The results of these trials have shown that investigated animal products from the natural environment around Belgrade are radioactivity safe.
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