The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority is one of the bodies involved in the Radiation Monitoring Network in the CR controlled by the State Office for Nuclear Safety which is responsible for monitoring the occurrence of radiation both in the environment and the whole food chain.

For monitoring purposes, the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority samples foodstuffs at which activity of the artificial radionuclide ¹³⁷Cs (Cesium) is subsequently examined. It is a residue resulted from nuclear reactor accident in the power plant in Chernobyl. The Inspection Authority is obliged to examine radioactivity in wild mushrooms and products thereof imported to our country from all countries affected by the Chernobyl disaster. The products mentioned above are examined before they enter the CR territory.

28 samples of domestic products were thus assessed in 2008, in particularly samples of potatoes, cereals, leafy, rooty and fruit vegetables and also fruits were taken. Three consignments of frozen wild mushrooms originating from the Ukraine were further checked. However, laboratory analyses did not prove exceeding the limit set for mass activity of the radionuclide ¹³⁷Cs.