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Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-1145-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-1145-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
Ideas and perspectives
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25 Feb 2016
Ideas and perspectives |  | 25 Feb 2016

All-clear for gourmets: truffles not radioactive

U. Büntgen, M. Jäggi, U. Stobbe, W. Tegel, L. Sproll, J. Eikenberg, and S. Egli

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Although ranging among the most expensive gourmet foods, it remains unclear whether truffles accumulate radioactivity at a harmful level comparable to other fungi. Insignificant radiocaesium concentrations in specimens from Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, and Hungary provide an all-clear for truffle hunters and cultivators in Europe as well as dealers and customers from around the world.
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