Abstract
The accident at the Chernobyl reactor on 26 April 1986 distributed considerable amounts of radioactive material over a large area of Europe. The accident has stimulated sampling and thorough measurements of radionuclide contamination in all types of forest resources from timber to forest by-products — such as mushrooms and berries. Many authors [1 — 3] have reported that macromycete fungi are absolute accumulators of 137Cs in forests because the specific activity in fungal fruit bodies exceeds both the activity in plants, which are usually involved in symbiotic relations with soil fungi, and the activity in the substratum on which they develop. It has been suggested that the consumption of wild-growing mushrooms is a risky activity [4]. From the viewpoint of risk perception, edible mushrooms play an important role even in modern society - far beyond their value as a food supply. The search for and gathering of edible mushrooms are one of the last opportunities for urbanised humans to satisfy their drive as hunters and collectors in nature and thus form an important part of our cultural heritage.
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Druzhinina, I., Kromp, W., Berreck, M., Karg, V. (2001). In Vitro Retention of Radionuclides by the Mycelium of Edible Fungi:Basis for Subsequent Risk Assessment. In: Linkov, I., Palma-Oliveira, J. (eds) Assessment and Management of Environmental Risks. NATO Science Series, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0987-4_34
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