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Just as its initial 1,500 bottles was leaving the distillery, the Chernobyl Spirit Company’s first experimental production was impounded. Kyiv City Prosecutors allege the company was using forged Ukrainian excise stamps, and that stalled the introduction of the first consumer product to come from the nuclear fallout area in 35 years.
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“But,” says Prof. Jim Smith of England’s Portsmouth University, who studied the transfer of radioactivity to crops in Chernobyl before setting up the company with Ukrainian colleagues, “this doesn’t make sense since the bottles are for the U.K. market and are clearly labelled with valid U.K. excise stamps.”
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Chernobyl Vodka Made From Apples Grown Near Nuclear Disaster Seized by Police
On 5/10/21 at 7:22 AM EDT
The first bottles in a batch of artisan vodka made from apples grown near Ukraine s Chernobyl nuclear power plant have been seized by the authorities.
However, about 1,500 bottles of ATOMIK spirits were confiscated on March 19 and seized following a Ukrainian security services investigation, the company behind the product said.
The Chernobyl Spirit Company is a self-described social enterprise aiming to produce high quality artisan vodka from land in the areas of Ukraine abandoned after the Chernobyl accident, its website states.
The first bottles of an artisanal spirit made using apples grown near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant have been seized by Ukrainian authorities.
The first batch of ATOMIK Chernobyl Spirits – an artisan spirit drink made using ingredients from inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone – has hit a rocky start after it was mysteriously seized by the Ukrainian Secret Services.
The Chernobyl Spirit Company announced last week that 1,500 bottles of their ATOMIK alcoholic spirit were confiscated on March 19, following an investigation by the SBU, the Security Service of Ukraine, while en route to the UK.
The company was set up by Professor Jim Smith, a prominent environmental scientist from the UK who has studied the Chernobyl accident since 1990, and Ukrainian colleagues. Their primary product is a spirit made with help of the Palinochka Distillery in Ukraine, made from apples grown in the Narodichi District – one of the still inhabited areas most affected by the infamous Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986.