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[en] The decrease of radioactivity for 134Cs, 85Sr, 106Ru, 57Co, 110mAg during food processing was measured. Washing and bleaching vegetables directly contaminated by a single aerosol deposit led to a radioactivity decrease (depending on the vegetable, the radionuclide and the time of deposition) up to 90% for caesium. The efficiency of these processes was less important when the vegetables were contaminated by root transfer, except for peeling of root vegetables. Canning of vegetables indirectly contaminated by caesium, strontium, cobalt and ruthenium, after paring and bleaching, was rather interesting with residual radioactivity varying from 30 to 50% for green beans and from 5 to 20% for carrots. Measurements of stable caesium and strontium in cereals before and after industrial processing showed an important activity decrease; retention factors varied from 0.1 to 0.2 for wheat milling and 0.1 to 0.4 for rice processing. (authors). 6 refs., 9 tabs., 1 figs
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Effet de traitements alimentaires de legumes et de cereales sur la radioactivite des produits transformes
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BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, CESIUM ISOTOPES, CLEANING, COBALT ISOTOPES, DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES, ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES, EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI, EVEN-ODD NUCLEI, FOOD, GRAMINEAE, HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES, INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI, INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTOPES, ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES, ISOTOPES, LILIOPSIDA, MAGNOLIOPHYTA, MASS SPECTROSCOPY, NUCLEI, ODD-EVEN NUCLEI, ODD-ODD NUCLEI, PLANTS, RADIOISOTOPES, RUTHENIUM ISOTOPES, SECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES, SILVER ISOTOPES, SPECTROSCOPY, STRONTIUM ISOTOPES, YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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