TRANSFER OF CS-137 FROM SOIL TO CHICKEN MEAT AND EGGS

A garden from a residential house, contaminated by the accidental open ing of a Cs-137 teletherapy source in Goiainia, Brazil, was used to st udy the distribution and biological half-lives of radiocaesium in poul try after prolonged ingestion of contaminated soil. Based on these res ults, concentration ratios between egg components and chicken meat of different types from soil were determined. Concentration ratios ranged from 5.5 x 10(-3) to 1.06 x 10(-2) for whole consumable eggs, from 2. 1 x 10(-2) to 5.5 x 10(-2) for meat and 1.1 x 10(-2) to 3.1 x 10(-2) f or organs.