> Women in Polesia were found to have been picking berries that grew in soil contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster and selling them to the EU. When EU found out about this and enforced their radiation limits, the women got dosimiters and found the berries with the highest doses, set them aside, and then mixed those in with low-dosage berries for sale to ensure the entire batch made it through.

cnbc.com/2016/11/30/a-radioactive-berry-pickin...
apparently it was still a problem as recent as 2019.
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