Subject: Re: Are wild mushrooms a radiation hazard in Europe?

From: "L.J.L.D. Van Griensven" <[email-masked]>
Date: 24 Nov 1993 07:48:00 -0000

Hi

A collegue gave me the following reference concerning Radioactivity,  
Mushrooms and Chernobyl:

Vasser, Hrodzyns'ka and Lyuhin
(Kholodnyi Inst. Bot. Acad. Sci. Ukr., Kiev)
UKR BOT ZH 49(5): 79-86 1992.
In Ukr. with english summary.

Gamma spectral analysis of 39 species of wild and cultivated  
macromycetes in the territory of Ukranian Polessie.

( parts deleted etc etc.)
(about edible fungi:)
high levels of contamination prove a necessity to stop gathering and  
laying-in in the studied region.

Thus it's not advisable to collect mushrooms in the ukraine.

Leo