If you go down to the woods of central Europe today, you are in for a big surprise: radioactive pigs.
Scientists have found that wild boar in the forests of Germany and Austria are so radioactive that they are unsafe to eat and have discovered that this is not because of the Chernobyl disaster, as was previously assumed.
Researchers from the Vienna University of Technology have concluded that testing of nuclear weapons in the decades immediately after the Second World War is still affecting the soil in areas where the boar live in Germany.
Wild boar lose their stripes as they age but dangerous radioactivity remains
JOACHIM REDDEMANN
The tusked, shaggy haired pigs roam the forests of central Europe in large numbers, protected from hunters by the fact that the radioactive cesium levels in their bodies are above that
