Mushroom exporters face tougher checks
Aug 12, 1999
By Brooke Donald
TALLINN - Fearing that mushrooms from Chernobyl-affected areas may still be contaminated with radiation, the European Commission imposed stiffer controls on mushrooms imported from 23 countries including Estonia last week. The EU said that since the nuclear accident in 1986, there had been cases of "non-compliance with the permitted levels of radioactive contamination." Levels of radiation "may well have increased in the case of certain species."Estonian mushroom exporters assure that the mushro ...
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