Table 12¢
Radioactivity in Milk*: NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Results of Composite Samples for Period Ending September 1958.

Date of

Calcium Content

grams/liter

rollection

12

-~ii-

Sample

10-15-57
11-15
12-15

Radioactivity in uuc/liter

flodine - 131

Strontium - 89

Stromtium - 90

Bample

Sample

Sample

Barium - 140

Cesium - 137

Mo.

laverage

{12 Mo.

Average

12 Mo.

Average

}/12 Mo.

Average

Sample

12 Mo.

Average

Sample

12 Wo.

Average

1-116
1.101
1.116

250
1,00
0

122
37
14

5.0
52
5.0

159
4
0

48
45
40

2-15
3-15
4-15
5-15
6-17

1.092
1.047
1.078
1.036
1.093

1.077
1.072
1.076

0
0
50
32
0

Wo]
74
71

3
3
2
23
63

38
37
39

5e2
329
4.0
36
9.9

5 ok
5-3
567

5
1
0
5
20

42
38
36

46
51
44
40
71

43
43
46

8-15
9-15

1.048
1.241

1.079
1.096

&
10

72
48

41
73

40
]

3e3
5.6

56
56

28
15

35
25

67
76

53
53

1-16-58

*

1.123

0

6

5.6

0

30

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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