d26ea56a-a692-427c-8f5a-a9bb6eb7da6b English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:16:55 UK GEMINI 2.3 Radionuclide biological half-lives for farm animals 2019-09-17 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d26ea56a-a692-427c-8f5a-a9bb6eb7da6b 10.5285/d26ea56a-a692-427c-8f5a-a9bb6eb7da6b doi: Barnett, C.L., Wells, C., Fesenko, S., Tagami, K., Beresford, N.A. (2019). Radionuclide biological half-lives for farm animals. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/d26ea56a-a692-427c-8f5a-a9bb6eb7da6b Data comprise a compilation of quality-controlled biological half-life values (and associated information) from a literature review for animals (mainly farm livestock) which contribute to the human food chain. The dataset contains almost 650 entries for 12 animal types (cattle, sheep, goats, deer, geese, hens, horses, pigs, rabbits, camels, ducks and red grouse) of importance to the human food chain for 32 elements relevant to radiological protection. Entries include values for milk, muscle (meat), eggs, whole body, carcass and various tissues (e.g. liver and kidney); the number of entries available for each element/food-chain product combination is highly variable. The dataset also contains values for other sample types (e.g. urine, faeces etc.) that are not associated with the human food but are presented as the data appeared in the same source reference as those values for human food chain products and they may be useful for modelling purposes. All the source references consulted during the review are provided. The study was conducted as part of the CONFIDENCE project which is part of the CONCERT EJP, which receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 662287. Full details about this nonGeographicDataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d26ea56a-a692-427c-8f5a-a9bb6eb7da6b Barnett, C.L. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Wells, C. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Fesenko, S. Russian Institute of Radiology and Radioecology corwin_17f@mail.ru author Tagami, K. National Institute of Radiological Sciences tagami.keiko@qst.go.jp author Beresford, N.A. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8722-0238 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Barnett, C.L. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication radionuclide milk meat food chain foodstuff farm animal half-life GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Radioecology Biological Element Review tissue otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Barnett, C.L., Wells, C., Fesenko, S., Tagami, K., Beresford, N.A. (2019). Radionuclide biological half-lives for farm animals. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/d26ea56a-a692-427c-8f5a-a9bb6eb7da6b English utf8 environment 1959-01-01 2016-12-31 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/d26ea56a-a692-427c-8f5a-a9bb6eb7da6b Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/d26ea56a-a692-427c-8f5a-a9bb6eb7da6b.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Prior to beginning the review, a recording sheet (in Microsoft Excel), was designed to allow easy collation of the half-life values (and associated information) into the final dataset. Each source reference was consulted and the data quality-controlled prior to inclusion into the dataset; subsequently the majority of the entries have been validated by somebody other than the person making the initial entry. Care should be taken when summarising the biological half-life values presented here. This is because source references often report differing numbers of components of loss (e.g. for Cs in milk between one and five loss components are reported by different authors) which means it is not possible to derive means and associated probability distribution functions for a given component (i.e. a degree of interpretation will be required when trying to derive ‘best estimate’ values).