Table
MIIX SAMPLES
.
Yearly Average Levels for PeriodSeptember
(in micromicrocuries per liter
Calcium
grams/licer
Todine!3!
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Strontium9
3, 000**
7, 000%*
80.0#*
Barium’#0
cesiun!37
Permissible Limits*
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Exposure
200,000%*
150, 000#*
Cincinnati, Ohio
1.153
4O
65
704
29
ar:
New York, N. Y.
1.096
48
39
5.6
25
53
Sacramento, Calif.
1.137
29
2h
5.5
15
57
Salt Lake City, Utah
1.142
113
30
4,2
18
51
St. Louis, Missouri
1.272
144
118
11.2
55
16
*
This table was extracted from a press release (Jamary 5, 1959) prepared by the U. S. Public Health Service
which maintains a milk monitoring program of their own.
** These limits are the maximum permissible limits for lifetime exposure of population groups to specific
radioisotopes in water and are derived from the current recommendations of the National Committee on
Radiation Protection and Measurement. The limits have been generally accepted as being equally applicable
to milk,