Do any products that were made in 1986 or 87 and shipped globally after the Chernobyl accident contain any trace nuclear material or radiation?
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All material is radioactive. That’s not hyperbole. So everything has “trace” radioactive characteristics.
Hence the banana scale for radioactivity.
The points of concern are typically about how much is getting into you. The worst “common infiltrate” is inhalation of tiny particles of dust. The lungs are dead ends compared to the through-path of the digestive tract.
Some of the most problematic trace radioactive materials from history are like uranium glaze pottery from the thirties.
The largest consumer product radiation concerns on the market today are those “energy bracelets” and “ionic pendants. They are the new age return of “energy means health” woo. The are deliberately concentrated chunks of radioactive metals that you can just get online as “health accessories”,
So while there’s a real uptick of things like cobalt in everything since the atomic detonation tests began the actual pound of concern are deliberately unsafe manufacture rather than incidental taxes.
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