a: 2 Sedy burden vould Se higher then the sean asult female Oecdy surzen by a faccor of 1.2. The 13765 data collected in April 1978 indicates that the mean aduit male body burden is 1.5 times higher than the mean adult femaie body burden. Likewise, the mean child body burden for 1376, would be expected to be lower by a factor of 1.8. Our data indicates that the mean child 1376, body burden is a factor 2 less than the mean adult male body burden. Other factors which influence the body burden include the age of the individual, the residence interval on Bikini Island and family relationships. 1376, body burden results weighted by the individual's body potassium and ordered by sex, age and residence interval were tested to determine the influence of age and residence interval on the body burden. The Bartlett test for homogeneity of variance was used to determine if the sample populations under consideration had the same variances. If the sampie variances were the same then 4 one way anal- ysis of variances was performed on each data set. If the sample variances were not equal, then the data was transformed by taking the log (ln or square root) of the activity and the test for homogeneity repeated. When the data passed the Bartlett test for homogeneity, the one way analysis of variance was performed. The data were grouped by sex because the mean of the adult male and adult female 13765 body burden were significantly different. The result of the one way analysis of variance with age of the individual being the variable suspected of influencing the weighted 137¢s body burden reSults indicates that no age or age group significantly influences the results. This implies that indigenous food products are consumed at a uniform rate by all individuals and that one age group does not have a preference for a type of food noc found in the diet of other generations. 15