3. Transfers to natural products

Radionuclide transfer phenomena to natural foodstuffs are identical to those described for agricultural and livestock products. Most existing models are simpler, limited to the use of a transfer factor expressed in becquerels per kilogram of fresh food per becquerel per square meter deposited at ground level (m ² .kg ^–1 ) . Moreover, mass and volume activities in the environments where the wild plants and animals that are the source of the contamination live are more difficult to determine. It is not easy, for example, to know...