Radioactive substances in food, milk and feed in the Netherlands: yearly bulletin 2021
2023
van Tuinen, S.T. | Bubberman, D.V. | Vos van Avezathe, A. | Wijnbergen, S.
Within the Netherlands Wageningen Food Safety Research performs a monitoring program on the presence of natural and artificial radioactivity in the food and feed production chain. This monitoring program is based on several European and Dutch rules and regulations. In 2021 the results of about 2750 gamma analyses and about 250 beta analyses in food and feed products showed no exceedings of the maximal allowed levels. Most samples did not show results above the minimal detectable levels, which indicated the radioactivity concentrations in food and feed products are generally very low. With the analysis results a calculation of the annual yearly ingestion dose as a result of artificial radionuclides present in food products is performed. To be able to perform a more accurate calculation on the total yearly ingestion dose for the Dutch population also the contribution of the alpha-emitters which are naturally present in food and feed products should be analysed more intensively.
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