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I've never heard that either. Can't be correct.

"I've never heard of it, so it can't be true" is a terrifyingly bad standard to set.

https://www.bfs.de/EN/topics/ion/environment/foodstuffs/mush...

> As a result of the Chernobyl reactor accident, certain species of mushrooms and wild game are still highly contaminated with caesium-137 in some areas of Germany.

Highly contaminated is a strong word. You'd have to eat 20kg+ of those mushrooms according to that article to reach your annual recommended amount of radition for the year. Considering how long it would take to pick 20kg of wild mushrooms I think you would be at it for a while.

Bananas are also radioactive - those mushrooms maybe an order or two of magnitude more.

20 kg doesn't sound too much at all. I know some people who pick a few dozen buckets of mushrooms every year.

I've just made an Ottolenghi recipe-based mushroom lasagne with 2.4 kg mushrooms the other week. Eaten over two days, very delicious and wouldn't mind it more often.

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