Is ecological food also radioecological? - 210Po and 210Pb studies

Dagmara Strumińska-Parulska; Grzegorz Olszewski

doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.10.051

Is ecological food also radioecological? - ²¹⁰Po and ²¹⁰Pb studies

Chemosphere. 2018 Jan:191:190-195. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.10.051. Epub 2017 Oct 9.

Authors

Dagmara Strumińska-Parulska¹, Grzegorz Olszewski²

Affiliations

¹ Environmental Chemistry and Radiochemistry Department, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 63, 80-308, Gdańsk, Poland. Electronic address: dagmara.struminska@ug.edu.pl.
² Environmental Chemistry and Radiochemistry Department, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 63, 80-308, Gdańsk, Poland.

PMID: 29035790
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.10.051

Abstract

Presented are results of a study on accumulation of naturally occurring ²¹⁰Po and ²¹⁰Pb in ecological and conventional farming food products in Poland: fruits, vegetables and cereals. The main idea behind this research was to determine the activity concentrations of ²¹⁰Po and ²¹⁰Pb in ecological and commercial food as well as calculate and compare the effective dose (radiation) connected to different origin of analyzed food products consumption. The studies showed the majority of all compared food samples contained similar ²¹⁰Po and ²¹⁰Pb activities and statistically, the consumption of organic and commercial food would give similar annual effective dose.

Keywords: Ecological organic farming; Effective radiation dose evaluation; Food products; Intensive conventional agriculture; Lead (210)Pb; Natural radioactivity; Polonium (210)Po.

MeSH terms

Ecosystem
Edible Grain / chemistry
Food Safety*
Fruit / chemistry
Lead Radioisotopes / analysis*
Poland
Polonium / analysis*
Radiation Monitoring / methods
Vegetables / chemistry

Substances

Lead Radioisotopes
Polonium
Polonium-210