Dear Beefriends

Maybe, somebody is interested in honey radioactive pollution.

Many radioactive nuclides spread to different countries after Chernobyl
Nuclear Power Plant accident after 1986. Some consumers of agricultural
goods (also a honey) even after 14 years doubt if the used products are free
of radioactive nuclides and don't affect their health.

Therefore the Beekeepers Union of Lithuania asked their branch Beekeeper
Societies to provide the honey samples from 26 regions and 47 such samples
were collected. Also 2 samples of German origin honey for comparison were
bought in honey shops. The radioactive pollution was explored in Radiation
Safety Center in Vilnius with gamma spectrometric OXFORD device. It makes
possible to evaluate the ecological, sanitary, hygienic consequences of
specific radionuclide activity. Time spent for a sample evaluation took
5-118 hours, and it depended on Cesium (Cs-137, half decay time 30.174
years) activity. Potassium (K-40, half decay time 1.28 E9 years) pollution
was also explored.

The study of radioactive nuclide in honey showed that results gotten for
German and Lithuanian origin products are similar and the pollution level
meets the Lithuanian and EU regulations.

More details could be found in
 http://rizujus.lei.lt/Beekeeping/ApisAssoc/Gamma%20nuclides.htm

Taste Lithuanian honey without fear :-)

Sincerely
Rimantas

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