Table
MIIX SAMPLES
.
Yearly Average Levels for PeriodSeptember
(in micromicrocuries per liter

Calcium

grams/licer

Todine!3!

sStrontium©?

Strontium9

3, 000**

7, 000%*

80.0#*

Barium’#0

cesiun!37

Permissible Limits*
Recommended by

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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,

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