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Table Two (Annex ton to Appendix “anyAs indicative’of thegates,
These animals have continued to live (waén their ‘hérmal. eating-,
habits) in the environment during the time when the fission
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product intake by way of direct contamination was optimum and
the strontiuz-90 was highest in the soil-plant-aniinal “cycle.
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their body burdens had approached equilibrium
These data support the conclusion above that the
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