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portions of any fruit.
DR. BUGHER:

That is interesting.

I had the

impression that the cocoanuts also were showing activity.

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There was one sample of

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samples of material that had been exposed for five or six

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the container or anything.

MT. CHAPMAN:

No, sir.

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Only in the one sample there was no

question of contamination.

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In each instance there were two

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No, we took our own containers.

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