[The strength of evidence of the food inspection after the Chernobyl accident proven by whole body measurements of Basel students]. / Die Aussagekraft der Lebensmittelüberwachung nach dem Tschernobylunfall belegt durch Ganzkörpermessungen an Basler Schülern.

The radioactive contamination of the food consumed by the inhabitants of Basel after the Chernobyl fallout has been continuously controlled by our laboratory. The activity of ingested Cs-137 has been estimated and is compared here with the activity obtained through whole body counts. The satisfactory correlation between calculated and observed body activities enables an exact estimation of the people's doses applying the same model and demonstrate the reliability of the food control analysis.