Determinação das doses efetivas por ingestão de farinhas de cereais atráves da espectrometria de raios gama

AUTOR(ES)

Viviane Scheibel

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The health impact from radionuclides ingestion of foodstuffs was evaluated by the committed effective doses determined in commercial samples of South-Brazilian cereal flours (soy, wheat, corn, manioc, rye, oat, barley and rice flour). The radioactivity traces of 228Th, 228Ra, 226Ra, 40K, 7Be and 137Cs were measured by gamma-ray spectrometry employing a 66% relative efficiency HPGe detector. The energy resolution for the 1332.46 keV line of 60Co was 2.03 keV. The committed effective doses were calculated with the activities analyzed in the present flour samples, the foodstuff rates of consumption (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) and the ingestion dose coefficients (International Commission of Radiological Protection). The reliability median activities were verified with c2 tests, assuring the fittings quality. The highest concentration levels of 228Th and 40K were 3.5 ± 0.4 and 1469 ± 17 Bq.kg-1 for soy flour, respectively, with 95% of confidence level. The lower limit of detection for 137Cs ranged from 0.04 to 0.4 Bq.kg-1. The highest committed effective dose was 0.36 mSv.y-1 for 228Ra in manioc flour (adults). All committed effective doses determined at the present work were lower than the UNSCEAR limits of 140 mSv.y-1 and much lower than the ICRP (1991) limits of 1 mSv.y-1, for general public. There are few literature references for natural and artificial radionuclides in foodstuffs and mainly for committed effective doses. This work brings the barley flour data, which is not present at the literature and 7Be data which is not encountered in foodstuffs at the literature, besides all the other flours data information about activities and committed effective doses.

ASSUNTO(S)

espectrometria de raio gama gamma ray spectrometry radiation dosimetry farinhas - radiação física nuclear alimentos - radiação dose efetiva comprometida (física) radioisotopos radiação - dosimetria nuclear physics radioisotopes

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