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Article: CHERNOBYL OFFERS A UNIQUE LAB SCIENTISTS AROUND WORLD LEARNING FROM DISASTER
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 27, 1987
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Each week for a year, workers at a US Food and Drug
Administration laboratory in Winchester have run a battery of tests
on raspberry jam, escarole lettuce, frozen strawberries, pasta,
salmon and other foods imported from the Soviet Union and a dozen
European countries.
They are looking for radioactive particles emitted during last
year's disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet
Union. And until they complete the probes, shipments from which the
samples were taken cannot leave warehouses in Boston, New York, San
Francisco and other ports.
In the thousands of tests done so far, the workers have turned
up just four samples radioactive enough to be rejected: two in ...