Cal37 in Food Samples Collected at Rongelap
Atoll,
August 1958
Comparison with Maximum Permissible Intake
Maximum daily intake found for one person:
7x 1073 pc
MPC in water:
1.5.x 10°39 we/ml
(Handbook 52)
Daily intake of water as fiuids by standard man =: 1.5 x 103 ml/day
(Radiological Health Handbook).
Maximum permissible daily intake taken as
(1.5 x 10°73 po/mi) (1.5 x109 mi/day) = 2.25 we/day.
Maximum daily intake of Csa‘’‘
cde.
.
:
for one person is about-ene
.
:
-++eee thousandth of the maximum permissible.
0.007 pe/day
2.25 pc/day
- 0.0031
Average daily intake of Cs137 for one person (average of 13
daily rations) was found tobe:
3.9 x 1073 uc
TeiCe.
Average daily intake is less than-ere-twe thousandth of the
maximum permissible.
0.0039 pc/day
~
2.25 uc/day
9g 9017