Table 3. Fallout 739»249py in a typical diet for New York, 1972°; data from Ref. 3. Food product . Consumption, ke/yr ny Shellfish 1 Concentration, Intake, pCi/kg (fresh) pci/yr 0.011 0.011 Bakery products 44 0.0085 0.37 Whole grain products ll 0.0060 0.066 Fresh fruit 59 0.0051 0.30 3 0.0048 0.014 “Fresh vegetables 48 0.0043 0.21 Root vegetablés 10 0.0035 0.035 Poultry 20 0.0033 0.066 Flour 34 0.0028 0.095 Meat 79 0.0026 0.20 Fresh fish 8 0.0016 0.013 Rice 3 0.0016 0.005 Potatoes (peeled) 38 0.0014 0.053 Eggs 15 0.0012 0.019 Macaroni 3 0.0012 0.004 22 0.0009 0.019 200 <0.0003 <0,06 28 <0.0003 <0.007 11 <0.0002 <0,002 511 0.0003 0.12 Dry beans Canned vegetables Milk Fruit juice , Canned fruit Tap water (1973) Total intake 1.6 “Except for tap water — 1973. on the average, should contain fall- obtained for terrestrial food items*? out levels of plutonium similar to are given in Table 4. those in food consumed by New Yorkers detection limits (with 95% confidence) Plutonium concentrations in the New were available for some samples York diet are abstracted from a because of the limited sample size report by Bennett in Table 3.3 obtainable from the existing inven- Only plutonium some recent plutonium data from tory of food products on the island. the June 1975 Bikini Survey by one However, from those samples (papaya, of the authors? and earlier data pig muscle) where there was sufficient