Mushrooms And Geiger Counters

Posted by timothy on Friday September 13, 2002 @01:45AM from the ticker-tape dept.

jonerik writes "This article in the New York Times details the efforts being undertaken by Moscow food inspectors to keep radioactive produce out of the city's open-air markets and off of dinner tables. And the efforts are paying off, with seizures of 'hot' produce up by 10% so far this year vs. last year. Laced with cesium and strontium thanks to the radioactivity released by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, forest produce (including berries and mushrooms) is more difficult to track than farm produce, but the inspectors apparently manage to keep on top of it, with one exception: Old babushkas who sell illegal produce from the sides of streets and who city officials are hesitant to crack down on."

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Re:This rocks. by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-13 02:49 · Score: -1, Troll

Jealousy will get you nowhere...

Notice your using a @Mac address. You must be one of those Mac-with-PC-envy types as well.

I'll bet you thought the Coleco Adam rocked too.

How about the Apple ][? Does that "rock" in your book as well?

How about all the German scat flicks? Those rock too?