When managing livestock in technologically polluted areas to assess and prevent the negative impact of feed on farm animals, to obtain products that meet sanitary and hygienic safety requirements, it is important to monitor constantly the levels of pollution by main ecotoxicants in all parts of the trophic chain soil — feed — animal body — livestock production. If acceptance contamination levels are higher than it is required, it is necessary to take measures for contaminants decreasing in final livestock products. A review of the study of intake mercury, lead and arsenic with feeds in cattle and sheep organisms under the condition of technogenic–affected agricultural areas is presented in this paper. Estimation of the contamination levels of individual links of the food trophic chain by these ecotoxicants is given. The article describes the experience of using enterosorbents in the diet as one of the most important ways to reduce the content of heavy metals in the body of farm animals and in the final products of animal husbandry.

Abstract. Advisability of using risks as indicators for estimating radiation impacts on environmental objects and humans has been justified. Results are presented from identification of dose burdens distribution to various cohorts of the population living within the Semipalatinsk Test Site (STS) and consuming contaminated farm products. Parameters of dose burden distributions are estimated for areas of livestock grazing and the most contaminated sectors within these areas. Dose distributions to meadow plants for the above areas have been found. Regulatory radiation risks for the STS population and meadow ecosystem components have been calculated. Based on the parameters estimated, levels of radiation exposure of the population and herbaceous plants have been compared.

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The paper continues the cycle of publications addressed to the study of regularities of 137Cs content changes in agricultural products after the Chernobyl accident. The aim of the studies was to analyze the information describing changes in the 137Cs concentrations in agricultural animal forage: hay, haylage, silage and green fodder in the southwestern districts of the Bryansk region affected by the contamination after the ChNPP accident. The data on countermeasures in the fodder production are given and the system of radiological monitoring of fodder contamination is described. It is shown that the dynamics of changes in the 137Cs concentrations in fodder was mainly determined by the dynamics of implementation of remedial measures. The effective halflives of 137Cs concentration in forages during the first period after the accident (1987-1990) varied from 0.57 to 2.7 years. Subsequently (1991-2021) the decrease in feed contamination slowed down and the half-lives ranged from 8.0 to 50.0 years and longer depending on the scope of remediation and the characteristics of the plants used for the animal feed production.

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