Institute of Soil Science, Agrotechnology and Plant Protection “Nikola Poushkarov”, Bulgaria

E-mail: ivanka.yordanova@gmail.com

 

The wild mushrooms enter more and more actively in the contemporary food regimen of the Bulgarian individual. Because of the specificity in the physiology of this plant kind, related to the ability of accumulating heavy metals, the mushrooms are of a great interest from radiological point of view. With the purpose of minimizing the risk of an additional dose loading of the population during its consumption the precise radiometric control of the content of radioactive elements in them is necessary to be carried out.

In the present work results of the carried out analyses of the content of ¹³⁷Cs and ¹³⁴Cs in mushrooms from different regions of Bulgaria are presented. A summary, by kinds of mushrooms and in relation with the existing in EC standards for the content of the radioactive elements in food and food products, is performed. The results for dry and fresh mushrooms are commented.

Key words: radioactivity, Ceasium – 137, wild mushrooms, contamination