Radioactive Fruit Found in Moscow

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Tuesday April 27 11:27 AM ET 

Radioactive Fruit Found in Moscow

MOSCOW (AP) - Health inspectors in Moscow markets have found 
radioactive cranberries, apparently infected by lingering radioactive 
fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a newspaper reported 
Tuesday.  

A total of 1,450 pounds of cranberries were confiscated and 
destroyed after inspectors said they contained highly radioactive 
cesium, according to a report in the English-language Moscow 
Times. The contaminated berries looked and tasted like normal 
fruit.  

Many of the berries came from Ukraine and Belarus, the report said.

Large parts of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia were hit by radioactive 
fallout after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, the world's  
worst nuclear accident. 

Sandy Perle
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