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I just had an exchange with a local hunter who claims that 60% of the shot boars are discarded and deposited for being over the radiation limits for food. If you feel happy eating them, please contact some Bavarian hunters to get some cheap meat.

[hef19898]

That sounds about right. Some reagions just a few kilometers north of where I live are fine, close by hunter ask to be paid to hunt boar, otherwise it is just not economically viable due to test and recycling requirements.

[godelski]

I need to clarify, the calculations I used are based on 2,857 Bq/kg. The threshold for Germany is 600 Bq/kg. I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised that the German government sets high levels of safety. Japan put limits as 100 Bq/kg. The limits don't change the danger levels.

Here's a study you may be interested in[0]

> The minimum and maximum radiocesium concentrations were 87.1 Bq/kg FM and 8,120 Bq/kg FM, respectively, with a median concentration of 450 Bq/kg

> If the residents consume the wild boar meat as a meat source once, the median committed effective dose was in the range of 0.062 to 0.30 μSv/day, with a maximum value of 5.4 μSv/day. In Japan, the natural effective dose from food ingestion was estimated to be 99 µSv/y, which was 0.27 µSv/day

> The committed effective dose for one-time ingestion of wild boar meat could be considered extremely low for residents in Tomioka.

You can use this information to calculate risk. Let's combine based on these numbers instead of mine. EU dosage limit = 20mSv/yr. We'll subtract 2.1mSv for average German dosage[1], leaving us 17.9. Taking the higher dosage from this study (13.5x German thresholds) giving us 3314.8 "meat sources" to reach the limit (defined at the bottom by median pork consumption, maximum ~50g/day). Let's then say they eat 3 servings per meal, eat 3 meals a day, and do so for an entire year. Their dosage will be 19.84mSv/yr (17.739 from the 8,120 Bq/kg boar). Your relative increase in lifetime chance of cancer at 20mSv protracted radiation exposure is approximately 0%. It is approximately 0% even at 40mSv protracted. Your risk of getting cancer due to eating that much meat is well above 0, since a single source here is roughly 50g (the recommended limit for daily consumption of red meat) and you're eating 9x that (450g/day). Your risk of cardiovascular issues are even higher.

Were I to live in Germany, I'd appreciate the cheap pork.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7283223/

[1] https://www.bfs.de/EN/topics/ion/environment/natural-radiati...

[foo-bar-bat]

Please stop spamming this thread.

[godelski]

It's my thread, that's not spam. People replied to me first