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RADIOACTIVE NUCLIDE MONITORING USING BEES AS BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS

https://doi.org/10.51523/2708-6011.2011-8-1-25

Abstract

Bees are an excellent animate indicator to detect pesticides, heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and radionuclide on the given territory. In Italy, in the period after the Chernobyl catastrophe the investigations were carried out to prove that honey was a sure indicator for radioactive contamination. The analysis based on the technique of gamma spectrophotometry using Multichannel Germanium crystal is particularly suitable for the detection and dosimetry of Cesium (137Cs +134Cs), Mercury isotope 197 and Lead isotopes-210, -212, -214. Bees together with their products were included in the Enumeration «Rassegna di Bioindicatori per la radioattività ambientale» (Review of Bioindicators to monitor environmental radioactivity) - AGF-T-RAP-99-13 of 31.12.2009 prepared by ANPA (National Center of Physical Agents) as bioindicators of environmental radioactivity.

About the Authors

Agnello Lidia
Florence State University
Belarus


Comodo Nicola
Florence State University
Belarus


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Lidia A., Nicola C. RADIOACTIVE NUCLIDE MONITORING USING BEES AS BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS. Health and Ecology Issues. 2011;(1):128-130. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.51523/2708-6011.2011-8-1-25

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