Loads of Radioactive Berries Seized
Fri Jun 28 2002, 2:17 PM ET
                                                                                   
MOSCOW (AP) - Nearly 1,500 pounds of berries from an area heavily hit
by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster were seized this month from
Moscow markets because of radioactive contamination, an official
announced on Friday.

The bilberries, akin to blueberries, were found to have 14 times the
acceptable levels cesium, said Yelena Ter-Markirosova, spokeswoman for
Radon, the capital's radiation-monitoring agency.

She said experts had confiscated 1,472 pounds of the berries - grown
in western Belarus - since June 18.

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