Natural Radioactivity in some Local Food Samples Consumed by Children in Iraq-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Natural Radioactivity in some Local Food Samples Consumed by Children in Iraq

Published:2024-08-30 Issue:2 Volume:12 Page:853-860
ISSN:2322-0007
Container-title:Current Research in Nutrition and Food Science Journal
language:en
Short-container-title:Curr Res Nutr Food Sci

Author:

Mohammed Zahrah Baqer¹,Obai Iman Sabah²,Jaafar Noor Ali³^ORCID,Abojassim Ali Abid⁴^ORCID,Al-Khayfawee Ahmed Ali Ghali⁴

Affiliation:

1. 1General Directorate for Education in Najaf/ Department for Vocational Education in Najaf, Iraq

2. 2Department of Medical physics, Jabir ibn Hayyan university for medical and pharmaceutical sciences, Faculty Medical Sciences, Al-Najaf, Iraq

3. 3Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Kufa, Al-Najaf, Iraq

4. 4Amal Al-Hayat Hospital, Al-Najaf, Iraq

Abstract

This work was directed towards studying the specific activity of natural radioactivity (40k, 238U, and 232Th) in 13 samples of foodstuff that are consumed by children in Iraq. The foodstuffs such as biscuit, cocoa powder, milk powder, indomie, and soup were collected from markets in the Al-Najaf governorate. This food was analyzed in the laboratory, which belongs to the University of Kufa, using a scintillation detector (NaI(Tl)) detector (gamma spectrometer systems) and provided with software MESTRO-32. The results found that, the specific activity for potassium-40 were ranged from 52.11 Bq/kg to 619.61 Bq/kg, while the specific activity for uranium-238 ranged between 4.11 Bq/kg to 18.9 Bq/kg, but for thorium-232 were ranged from 0.39 Bq/kg to 12.06 Bq/kg. The specific activity for 40K, 238U, and 232Th for all samples was found to be within the worldwide range for radioactivity in food 420, 30, and 45 Bq/kg, respectively, except for cocoa powder samples have specific activity for 40K higher than worldwide. This study has shown that the levels of radioactivity in most samples of children food were within the limit value of organization UNSCEAR. Finally, the present study will provide data about natural radioactivity in food used by children in all governorates of the country to protect all children.

Publisher

Enviro Research Publishers

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