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- Title
Fat tissue is not a reservoir for radiocesium in wild boars.
- Authors
Steinhauser, Georg; Knecht, Christian; Sipos, Wolfgang
- Abstract
Meat of wild boars is not only known for high Cs activity concentrations but also for the remarkable constancy of these levels. Even decades after the Chernobyl accident, the Cs levels in wild boar meat in Central Europe have not declined but even partly increased. In the present study, we investigated an unusual hypothesis for this very unusual phenomenon: may the boars' fat tissue act as a reservoir for radiocesium? We investigated fat and muscle tissues of four wild boars in Western Germany and found that the Cs concentrations in fat were in the range of 10-30% of the respective activities in muscle tissue. Hence, the hypothesis was refuted.
- Subjects
GERMANY (West); ADIPOSE tissue physiology; CESIUM; WILD boar; MEAT analysis; PHYSIOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Radioanalytical & Nuclear Chemistry, 2017, Vol 312, Issue 3, p705
- ISSN
0236-5731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10967-017-5257-3