gr? an Locally Grown Food Collected
at Rongelap Island, August 1958
Sr?
0
in local food (weight of food as received)
0.267 ppe/z
(approximate value
subject to revision
Calcium in local food
Kou x 107" a/z
Average daily intake of local food in
August 1958
361 eg
Daily intake of calcium
0.8 g/day
(National Bureau of Standards, Handbook 52,
and Nutritional Data,
H.J. Heinz Co.,
P.O. Box 57, Penn., 1958)
sr”? intake per day
0.267 pyc/g x 361 2
=
Strontium Unit intake per day
96.4 ppe
9E.4 pyre gr 90 + 0.8 g Ca
=
120
* The locally grown food is to be regarded as a supplement
to the diet of the Rongelapese.