Table 12b

Radioactivity in Milk: AUSTIN, TEXAS
Results of Composite Samples for Period Ending September 1958.

Date of

Calcium Content

grams/liter

collec—
ti

on

Sample

12 Mo.

|Average

Radioactivity in uuc/liter

Iodine - 131

Strontium ~ 89

Sample

Sample

s

12 Mo.

Average

|12 Mo.

Average

Strontium - 90
Sample

12 Mo.

Average

Barium - 140
Sample

12 Mo.

Average

Cesium - 137
Sample

12 Mo.

Average

AVAILABLE TO DATS

Nw
i

66-58

7=3

8-6
9-4

*

1.115

0

1.160
1.121

50
16

1.144

8

26

22

1

40
32

34
3.9

ig
6

15

3.5

5

74

48

51
43

This table was extracted from a press release (January 5, 1959) prepared by the U. S. Public Health Service
which maintains a milk monitoring program of their own.

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