Radioactivity of honey in central and southern Poland

Jarosław Wieczorek; Marcin Kaczor; Grzegorz Romańczyk; Monika Grońska; Alicja Boryło

doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2020.106376

Radioactivity of honey in central and southern Poland

J Environ Radioact. 2020 Oct:222:106376. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2020.106376. Epub 2020 Aug 26.

Authors

Jarosław Wieczorek¹, Marcin Kaczor², Grzegorz Romańczyk², Monika Grońska², Alicja Boryło²

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Gdansk, Department of Environmental Analytics and Radiochemistry, Poland. Electronic address: jaroslaw.wieczorek@ug.edu.pl.
² Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Gdansk, Department of Environmental Analytics and Radiochemistry, Poland.

PMID: 32861138
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2020.106376

Abstract

In 2017, the Polish public consumed on average 0.61 kg of honey, while the European average consumption was 0.7 kg (Data on honey consumption in Poland, 2014) [http://www.portalspozywczy.pl]. The main point of this study was to investigate the ²¹⁰Po activity concentrations in different types of floral and non-floral honey, type of clad honey is made of and honey yield in honey available on the Polish market. Activity of ²¹⁰ Po in honey ranged from 0.006 ± 0.001 to 0.384 ± 0.004 Bq kg^-1 with effective dose 0.005 ± 0.001 to 0.281 ± 0.003 μSv/year. The activity in honey was measured by alpha-spectrometry. The concentration of radionuclide depends on the raw material used by bees and plant type. The highest concentration of ²¹⁰Po was observed in the honeydew honey and herbal honey.

Keywords: (210)Po; Alfa-spectrometry; Honey; Radiation dose.

MeSH terms

Animals
Honey*
Poland
Radiation Monitoring*
Radioactivity*
Radioisotopes

Substances

Radioisotopes