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0 pointspiotrjurkiewicz10y ago0 comments

> 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.

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_ph_10y ago· 1 in thread

Here is the link to the federal office for radiation protection: 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.

pasbesoin10y ago

I 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.

codewritinfool10y ago

Not authoritative, maybe, but there's this: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/radioactive-boars-a...

and this: http://qz.com/258731/radioactive-wild-boars-still-run-wild-i...

Both say the contamination comes from mushrooms.

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