Bertell April 15, B1 1988 Minority Report: Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., G.N.S.H. The Preliminary Report, Rongelap 15, 1988, arrived in our Toronto deadline for receipt of comments 1988, hence these comments are will be augmented the next month. by a separate It was distressing to me to Reassessment Projec ' April office 12 April 198. in California was April necessarily incompifte and report to Congress] within learn that blood tests and urine analyses done under US Congressional funding over 30 years have not even been entered into comput averages are available, no report has been given to Rongelap people. The question of urine analysi plutonium and other transuranics is serious enough the ionizing radiation even under the older more lax re of the 1960’s. Current international opinion wpuld be stricter by a factor of 5 to 10 times. This report [glossed from the 250 analyzed, and then using a median] instead of an average to extrapolate to the people’s future body burden. number The Brookhaven National Laboratory blood test data [for 133 Rongelapese living on the contaminated and uncontaminated Islands has now been entered into computer. re are thirteen blood parameters for 133 people for each of 30 years (1957 —- 87). It was impossible to scan thege 52000 Pieces of information without computerization. I [fail to understand why this data has never been properly pfocessed and analyzed, since this was obviously the purpose of collecting it. I hope to have a report on this readp within the next week. The basic question raised by the Rongelap people an Congress was whether or not Rongelap Atoll is a piace for the Rongelap people to live, to harvest to bring up their children. The questions have beeh into a proliferation of numbers, many of which scientifically sound, which are then compared legalistic standard for "average consumption of foo@ Standard Man". The question of pregnant women and was not addressed, that of infants was ina addressed, and the fact that the Rongelapese had serious radiation exposure making them an already people subjected to further contamination was not a The IICPH will submit a separate report on these It will compare the health of Rongelap children brought up on different Atolls. the US uitable food and turned fare not j[with a by the EFhildren quately revious damaged