Employees of Buryat customs found in the car a batch of massage pens with a radiation history 85 times higher than the norm. In this respect informs Federal Customs Service (FTS).
125 metal styluses for acupuncture containing high levels of ionizing radiation were carried in a car from Mongolia. Dangerous cargo was detected using the Yantar radiation monitoring system.
“The equivalent dose rate of gamma radiation on the surface of the stylus was 9.34 µSv/h, and the beta radiation level was 503.28 parts/cm2 per minute. At the same time, in accordance with the EAEU requirements, the surface of the goods must be free of alpha and beta pollution, as well as neutron radiation, “he said. FCS.
Rospotrebnadzor prohibits the importation of such goods into the territory of the EAEU. As the owner told the customs officers, he was taking the massage pens to Russia for resale and did not know that they could be radioactive and dangerous to health. The pens were returned to Mongolia.
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