Radioactive food
Sir,—Reinforcing your report of contamination in wheat from Turkey resulting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, I would point out that this possible problem is not peculiar to overseas food contamination. Your columns of about 20 years ago, as I vividly remember, reported the late Professor Marsden as saying that our New Zealand wheat was then showing traces of radioactivity because of the very excessive quantities of superphosphate impregnated into our own soils. Logic necessarily implies that not only would wheat be contaminated but so would everything else produced on such soils, both vegetable and animal. Only recently I asked a market gardener whether he believed in and practised organic farming. He gave me a queer look, laughed, and said "chemicals.” Can a healthy .population be based and produced this way? — Yours, etc., W. J. COLLINS. March 1, 1989.
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