Caesium-137
In terms of the statistics Contamination of foods with radioactive substances of the Federal Research Center for Nutrition and Food - Institute of Dairy Chemistry and Technology:Caesium-137 ( 137Cs )
- radioactive isotope, which originates at atom splitting
- physical half life: 30 years
- effective half life in humans: 70 days
- long physical half life, continuous absorption via food, good, resorption
- potassium analogon, accumulates in liver, spleen and kidneys
- included in meat, milk, foliage plants (spinach), mushrooms, culinary herbs, berry fruit and game.
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