“After
Chernobyl, Africans
Ask if Food if Hot”, New York Times, 10 January 1988
This article reports African accusations that food being imported from
Europe and sold at low cost in Africa
is or could have been contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986. One reason for the persistence of such
reports is the African conviction that Europeans have sold Africans shoddy goods
for centuries, but there have been two known cases of attempts to ship
radioactively contaminated powdered milk to
Angola and Egypt. The
author stresses the point that many of these accusations are baseless and have
been disproved through testing.
Jeremy Austin Purcell
8 March 2002