Radionuclide Concentrations in Food and the Environment
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Author(s): M. Pöschl and L. Nollet (Eds)
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0849335949
Format: hardback
458pp
Price: £97.00
Review Date: 26 October 2006
Review: Our surrounding environment contains small amounts of radioactive (unstable) elements or radionuclides (radioisotopes) that are derived from primordial and secondary cosmogenic sources. In addition, technologically enhanced naturally occurring materials and man-made radionuclides have been introduced into the ecosystem. This book looks at the issues concerned with all these sources and the radio-nuclide concentrations in foods on an academic research level. It looks at the negative effects of environmental radioactivity on plants and animals, as well as the effects of radiocontaminated food on human health. There are chapters on: radionuclide sources, radioactivity in the air, radionuclide concentrations in soils, radionuclide transport processes and modelling, effects of radio activity on plants and animals, radionuclides in foodstuffs and raw materials, radiation detection methods, unmasking the illicit trafficking of nuclear and other radioactive materials, radiation protection programmes, regulations, and food irradiation – microbiological, nutritional and functional assessment.