Practical improvement of the radiological quality of milk produced by peasant farmers in the territories of Belarus contaminated by the Chernobyl accident

Lepicard, S.; Dubreuil, Gilles Hériard

doi:10.1016/s0265-931x(01)00056-x

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“…Belarus has developed agricultural countermeasures and other strategies whereby peasant farmers have improved the radiological quality of privately produced milk in the affected territories (Lepicard and Hériard Dubreuil 2001). BThe provision of uncontaminated (or less contaminated) feed or pasture to previously contaminated animals for an appropriate period before slaughter effectively reduces contamination in meat ( Fesenko et al 2006, 354).…”

Section: Research On Food Safety In Ukraine After the Chernobyl Disastermentioning

confidence: 99%

From Chernobyl to Fukushima: an interdisciplinary framework for managing and communicating food security risks after nuclear plant accidents

Belyakov

2015

J Environ Stud Sci

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This comparison of government disaster management and public communications after the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents seeks to create a framework for disaster management that enhances food resilience (the ability of food systems to withstand perturbations that could cause disruption of food supply); and in the specific case of nuclear disasters, the avoidance of contaminated food and provision of alternative foods. This paper integrates food security, emergency management, and risk communications perspectives. Misinformation and incomplete information can bias decision-making and political actions. When risk communication is inadequate, the public reacts with fear, mistrust, panic and stress. People have difficulty deciding what they can safely eat and what they should not eat. Many choose to reject all food from affected regions, which can compromise food security. Lack of proper information may lead to such extremes in behavior as avoidance of dairy products and consumption of untested foods, which may in fact have high levels of radioactivity. The measures taken by the USSR after the Chernobyl disaster lacked consistency and clarity and were not effective in providing food security for the affected people. The government also demonstrated a lack of attention to social justice in its dealings with people who moved back to the contaminated area, ignoring government policy that they should stay out. Those people still suffer from food insecurity. In Japan, food that met government safety levels was available, but many consumers nonetheless questioned the safety of food supplies and farmers often were confused about production and marketing. In both the Chernobyl and Fukushima cases, the evacuation of affected people was aimed at reducing exposure to radiation and did not sufficiently consider neither the psychological and physical health impacts of resettlement nor the security and safety of food supplies. Government responses would have been more effective in some regions if a timely distribution program of adequate, safe alternative foods (especially radioprotectors) from non-affected areas had been initiated.

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Section: Research On Food Safety In Ukraine After the Chernobyl Disastermentioning

confidence: 99%

From Chernobyl to Fukushima: an interdisciplinary framework for managing and communicating food security risks after nuclear plant accidents

Belyakov

2015

J Environ Stud Sci

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“…These might not be applicable to low‐dose, internal, chronic exposure or to potential health effects across the lifespan (especially in utero) (Fairlie, 2009). Furthermore, those studies that have examined health effects of chronic exposure have focused mostly on limited pathways, such as the transfer of radiation from dietary intake of milk (Lepicard and Dubreuil, 2001), mushrooms (Duff and Ramsey, 2008; Skuterud et al, 1997), meat (Åhman, 1999; Vilic et al, 2005), and fish (Travnikova et al, 2004). However, radiation exposure occurs through a number of internal and external pathways, and population exposure levels are expected to vary based on dietary and activity patterns.…”

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Chronic radiation exposure in the Rivne‐Polissia region of Ukraine: Implications for birth defects

Dancause

Yevtushok

Lapchenko

et al. 2010

American J Hum Biol

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“…At a more collective level, the results of measurements such as described above can be used to present the radiological situation in a more global context [4]. The objective here is not to present exhaustive statistical analyses which would be conducted for scientific research purposes, but rather to identify methods to analyse and to display the information in a way that would be useful, both for the population and for the local and national authorities.…”

Section: Radiological Data Managementmentioning

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Strategies and guidance for establishing a practical radiation protection culture in Europe in case of long term radioactive contamination after a nuclear accident: The SAGE Project

Lepicard¹,

Fiedler²,

Nesterenko³

et al. 2005

Radioprotection

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Abstract. The evaluation of the rehabilitation strategies implemented in the contaminated territories of the CIS countries affected by the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant highlighted the need and importance to involve the population in the day-to-day management of the radiological situation, to complement the rehabilitation programme implemented by public authorities. The ETHOS experience in Belarus has revealed that to be effective and sustainable, this involvement must rely on the dissemination of a practical radiological protection culture within all sectors of the population and especially within professionals in charge of public health. The objective of the SAGE Project is to contribute to the development of strategies and guidance for implementing and disseminating such a culture in Western Europe, in case of a nuclear incident or accident with long-term radiological consequences. The key output of the project will be a handbook for the general population, the administrations, the local elected representatives and the concerned professionals. National "stakeholders panels" have been set up in each participating country: Belarus, France, Germany and the UnitedKingdom. These panels involve professionals from the public health sector (nurses, midwives, medical doctors, radiation protection experts, medical social workers, NGOs, …), who will contribute to the elaboration of the handbook and to the evaluation of the practicability of the proposed strategies. A European "stakeholder workshop" will be organised at the beginning of 2005 with all interested parties. This workshop will disseminate the findings of the project to a wide audience, as well as facilitating discussion on ways to implement the strategies and guidance on a practical level. Recommendations will be prepared for further possible developments at the European level. This paper presents the objectives, the main work programme and the preliminary findings from the SAGE project.

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Practical improvement of the radiological quality of milk produced by peasant farmers in the territories of Belarus contaminated by the Chernobyl accident

Cited by 16 publications

References 2 publications

From Chernobyl to Fukushima: an interdisciplinary framework for managing and communicating food security risks after nuclear plant accidents

From Chernobyl to Fukushima: an interdisciplinary framework for managing and communicating food security risks after nuclear plant accidents

Chronic radiation exposure in the Rivne‐Polissia region of Ukraine: Implications for birth defects

Strategies and guidance for establishing a practical radiation protection culture in Europe in case of long term radioactive contamination after a nuclear accident: The SAGE Project

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