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Sample

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Assay

(Unit: 1/1000 allowable)

4,

Group I:

Pooled samples, 218, 221, 225 and 228;

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ages ranged from 1 to 30 days; Massachusetts;

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0.

Q.Ce

+ 0.03

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Age seven years, eleven months; area, Maine;

18.7 gms ash

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No. 237:

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3.

+

D. (Cont. )

17*e2i gms ash

5.

Group II: Pooled samples, 219, 220, 236 and 243;
ages ranged from 6 to 8 weeks; Maine and Massachusetts;

7-

Group IV: Pooled samples 241, 247 and 251; ages ranged
from 3 to 6 years; Maine and Massachusetts; 12.56 gms ash

0.3

1+

0.4

0.03

t+

Group III: Pooled samples Nos. 230, 235, 240 and 250;
ages ranged from 4 to 6 months; Massachusetts and
New Hampshire; 11.58 gms ash

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6.

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12.95 gms ash

0.07

Wisconsin Swiss (17-3 lbs; from around Monroe

in Green County; manufactured July 3, 1953);

i+

i.

=

Cheese Samples

C.043

t+
t+

ts

Japanece Meiji (10 lbs; processed; obtained by J.

Mayer; areca represented - Tokyo or Osaka, Honshu

0.15
0.03

+

WT

Imported Swiss (19 lbs; Switzerland); 353 gms ash

0.01

i+

110.9 gms ash

0.C7

Island, Japan); 243.4 gms ash

Japanese Hokkaido (10 lbs; natural; obtained by

J. E. Mayer; area represented - Hokkaido Isiand,
Jepan); 192.8 gems ash

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Wisconsin Munster (18 lbs from Dodge County, Wisconsin);
manufactured end of July, 1953; 372 gms ash

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Chicago milk shed samples: Dr. Lyle Alexander of the U.S.
Dept. of Agriculture collected milk-alfalfa-soil samples
from several farms in Dllinois and Wisconsin. We have not
received the soil samples yet, but following are the alfalfa
and milk samples which have been processed.
1.

Alfalfa:

These samples were dried and ground (but not

washed) by Dr. N. Scully of Argonne National Lab.

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