Robison:

I think we can talk about it just in general terms that if, if

you consume breadfruit, pandanas fruit, coconut or coconut crab, or papaya
or banana, whatever might be there, if you consume those products from the
northern part of Rongelap they will have a higher amount of activity than
those from the southern part of Rongelap.

The doses we estimate even from

those products are identified in the booklet and are below the standards,
for example, but if you do consume the products from that end of the atoll,

up in the north, you will have more activity in your body than you will if
you consume those from the southern part.

So we are just saying that you

are better off using the ones from the southern half most of the time.
-That doesn't mean that there can't be occasional use of the northern
products if it is absolutely necessary.
Marshallese:

I feel that the explanation just given, can be confusing to

our people.

To say you may eat from those islands, but it would be wiser

to have most of your diet come from the south.

Because just saying this,

that you may eat from those islands, we take to mean you may eat there.

And so, people would tend to then go and just indiscriminately take a lot
from that, that the word is out that it is all right.

The added clause,

"but take care," or “it's better to eat more from south," almost confuses
the issue.

It would better for you to say it is much better for you not to

eat those things.

Or even to say don't eat them.

Because once you say you

can but take care, that's where we got a mixed message, and I think that is
confusing to have that kind of an explanation offered.
Ray:

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Well, Senator my doctor tells me that I need not stop eating eggs for

breakfast.

But he tells me that I would be wise to eat no more than

perhaps 3 eggs a week and it is that sort of thing that we are trying to
impress here.

That, if you have a choice and have an ample diet, adequate

food from the southern islands from Rongelap, then in the long run you are
better off to not eat foods from the northern islands.

At the same time if

there is a shortage of food on the southern islands, we don't want to say,

"don't eat it at all," because you don't have food on the southern islands.
It is a matter of how much and how often and for how long.

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