Dietary intake of Cs-137 and Sr-90 by the population of the Gomel region, Byelarus, 1986-1989
Verbovikov, A.A.; Ermalitskiĭ, A.P.; Zhakov, I.A.; Zinovich, V.N.; Knizhnikov, V.A.; Petukhova, E.V.
Vestnik Rossiiskoi akademii meditsinskikh nauk 1992(3): 57-59
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0869-6047 PMID: 1382762 Document Number: 401398
The authors provide the results of measuring the content of radionuclides in foods in the first 4 years after the Chernobyl accident and the data on the diet of the population. Pollution of foods was demonstrated to decrease with time. The supply of 137Cs to the body fell 3-fold from 1986 to 1989. The rejection of foods in the most polluted Vetkovsk and Narovlyansk regions made it possible to reduce 3-6-fold the mean daily supply of 137Cs with the diet and up to 2-fold the supply of 90Sr.