Investigation of Radioactivity Concentration in Olive Oil

Abstract

It is obvious that healthy eating will only be with healthy foodstuffs, and the foods consumed can affect social life and religious life in addition to physical and mental health. The concentration of radioactivity that may be in basic foodstuffs such as oil can increase the dose rate taken with food. In the study, no measurable U-238, Ra-226, Th-232, K-40, Cs-137 and Cs-134 concentrations were found in olive oils obtained from olives grown in Osmaniye, Duzici and Erzin regions. The absence of measurable radionuclide concentrations in olive oils is a positive result. It is a desirable property that the olive oil that people consume as food is clean and does not contain radioactivity.