Table 12K

is
of
:
AnalysisSummaryof
mx Samples Collected in Sepuenter 1958
in micromicrocuries per liter

‘Calciua

grams/liter

Iodine!3!|

-

strontium®9

strontium

Barium!40|

cestum!37

3, OOO#*

T, OOO#*

80. 0#*

200,000**

150, 000#«

Permissible Linits*

Recommended by NCRP&M

- 3B

for Lifetime Exposure

Atlanta, Ge.

1.154

20

T2

13.8

7

719

Austin, Texas

1,121

16

32

3.9

6

43

Chicago, 111.

1.161

13

oh

1-9

10

71

Cincinnati, Ohio

1.132

5

98

9.4

13

59

Fargo, N. Dak.

1.125

aT

140

14.1

53

113

New York, HN. Y.

1.241

10

B

5.6

15

16

Sacramento, Calif.

1.161

9

17

3.8

0

Te

Salt Lake City, Utah

1.207

14

hh

5.0

1h

48

Spokane, Washington

1.163

"1

43

8.2

5

78

St. Louis, Mo.

1.303

19

263

15.4

48

104

*

**

|

.

|

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 oun.

These limits are the maximumpermissible 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.
to milk.

The limits have been generally accepted as being equally applicable

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