Transfer Factors of Natural Radionuclides from Soil to Medicinal Plants used by Local People in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey

Medicinal plants are very useful for humans with the various molecules and vitamins they contain. Most of that grow spontaneously in nature were taken into agricultural production practices after their healing properties discovered. The use pure active ingredients obtained from is quite common. These effective compounds also used by pharmaceutical industry preparation modern drug formulations. However, possible high levels natural radionuclides medicinal plants, particularly 226Ra, 232Th 40K, have upraised anxieties regarding radiological risks plant consumption. In this study, radionuclide activity concentrations 8 commonly Eastern Anatolia Region Turkey determined gamma spectrometric method using NaI(Tl) detector. Mean transfer factor (TF) values soil to found be 0.59, 0.88 1.52 respectively.