PRAGUE (Reuters) - A Czech army mission to Kosovo said on Thursday it had detected no threat of uranium contamination to the country's peacekeepers stationed there.

 Although the team had not yet completed examination of all samples, results so far proved no evidence of unusual levels of radiation among either Czech troops or in the air, water and food tested in areas where they were based.

 "The levels of radiation were normal," team leader Major Vaclav Hanzlik told a news conference, adding that he saw no risk for Czech KFOR (Kosovo Force) troops.

 The mission was sent in last month after NATO acknowledged that it had used munitions containing depleted uranium during its military campaigns in Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s.

 A number of cases of cancer and other fatal ailments among Balkans veterans from various NATO countries had sparked fears that they were victims of the so-called Balkans Syndrome from being exposed to radiation from the uranium.

 Czech Brigadier-General Jan Petras said no such a link had been proved. He said that 169 Czech peacekeepers returning home had already been tested with more tests to come.

 "All tests have proved negative so far," Petras said, adding that the Czech army wanted to test every professional soldier returning from Balkans on a regular basis once a year.

 "We are looking for ways on how to perform regular health checks when the soldiers retire from the army," Petras added.

 The Czech army plans to send another mission to Bosnia later this month.

 Controversy over the use of depleted uranium weapons used by NATO in the Balkans erupted after reports from Italy that six soldiers had died of leukemia.

 Britain, along with NATO and the United States, insists there is no proof that DU weapons pose any health risk.

 Cases of cancer have also been reported among soldiers from France, the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium and Portugal.