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The number of animals contaminated with cesium from Chernobyl is increasing in Bavaria.
It's not a joke - almost 25 years after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, the German wild boar remain heavily contaminated by radioactive fallout from the Ukrainian Central.

And the compensation paid by the government to hunters is increasing.

424,650 euros.

According to the Ministry of the Environment, Berlin is the sum that paid last year for hunters and hunting associations to ensure that the highly contaminated wild boar meat is sold in markets.

In 2006, these compensations were only 240,000 euros.

A ten times higher radioactivity standards

The origin of this increase: the sharp increase in the number of wild boars in the country, and the fact that their food, including mushrooms, remains heavily contaminated with cesium .

These radioactive particles spread over much of Western Europe after the accident of Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, reports the German Federal Agency for the protection against radioactivity.

"In some regions, particularly in the south, the radioactivity of wild boars is ten times higher than the standards," said Florian Emrich, spokesman for the Agency.

Up to 1300 Bq / kg

"Nobody made seriously ill from eating wild boar meat," said Florian Emrich yet.

But in areas at risk, hunters are required to analyze boar slaughtered for their meat could possibly be withdrawn from circulation, as a precaution.

According to the Agency for Health and Food Safety of Bavaria , 9 of the 56 boars tested last year and had a much higher level of cesium to 600 becquerels per kilo of meat allowed for consumption. Up to ... 1300 becquerels per kilogram.

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farewell - 12/08/2010 5:14 p.m.
"Reaching up ... 1300 becquerels per kilo" terrifying, no? It should give some orders of magnitude in all this before shouting to the health risk: a man of 70kg, is 7000 Bq (because of his bone and potassium carbon-14), 1 kg of fish 1000Bq ... Opium Breton fortunately you are not otherwise pretty granite stones adorn your home safely ... 1000Bq per kilogram there too) Finally, for greater accuracy should refer of Dose (whose unit is Sievert) is the unit used to measure the effects of radiation on the body (whatever its origin). For example, in France, it receives an average of 2.5 mSv / year. How do I Tchernobyliens boars eat to absorb a dose of 1 mSv? That information would have been helpful to know in order to better inform the reader about the character "alarmist" (or not) of this information ..."