TAPE 5 SIDE 1 (Background discussion) Robison: Okay, now, if you look at this first, second column of numbers. This column. Look at Mejit, 0.56. If you look at Utrik 2.4. And that’s, that’s the concentration that we find in the soils, so that, so that Mejit is less than Utrik, but because of the Brookhaven diet saying there are more imported foods than Mejit, it makes them come out about the same. Marshallese: Is this book, was th” s book made in 1978, or just this last year because supplementary food to Utrik just began last year? Robison: These numbers are calculated starting as of 1978. And when we say, when we say for 30 years then, it’s 30 years beginning in 1978. Marshallese: What food did we eat beginning in 1978? I am from Utrik, what food did we eat at that period beginning in 1978 from outside. were eating just like the Mejit people. Fh_y: The... We were eating from our own soil. Let me come back to your question in just a moment and first say something about diet. calculation, We When we first starting doing this sort of its purpose was to make, to assist the Enewetak people in making some plans for resettlement at Enewetak. With all of the best advice we could get about the diet of the people, we did not feel that we had a good understanding of what might be the diet of an Ujelang people now removed and living at Enewetak. Buck: ~: Of an Ujelang people removed. ..? The Enewetak people who were then living on Ujelang were to return to Enewetak, and we did not feel we were confident that we could predict what their diet might be at Enewetak. 10