PART. VIII
BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
PROJECT SUNSHINE (UNCLASSIPIED)
1, Monitoring and sampling of worldwide radioactive fallout
continued throughout the quarter,
The Health and Safety
Laboratory of the New York Operations Office prepared & report
which brings together O11 the data that have been obtained on
the deposition end uptake of fallout since systematic monitoring
and sampling began.
1/
The data on gummed film, surface air
monitoring, Pacific Ocean water, and human bone sampling are
only summarized in the report because they comprise hundreds of
thousands of individual listings,
However, the detailed
information is unclassified and availeble to anyone,
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Foreicn Food Collection
DOE A
2, Food samples were collected in Spain by a nutrition
team of the Interdepartmental Committee on Nutrition for Netionel
Defense and will be analyzed for their strontium 90 and calcium
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content,
Stratospheric Monitoring
3. Table 1 summarizes the results of analysis for
strontium 90 of stratospheric somples collected during the
period November 1956 through January 1958, based on Gata
available through June 26,
It is still not possible to interpret
these data in terms of strontium 90 concentrations in the
V/Copies of tnis report, "Environmental Contamination fron
Weapons Tests - A Compilation of Data Concerning Transport,
Deposition, Distribution, and Biological Uptake of Worldwide
Radioactive Fallout," HASL-42, were provided to the Joint
Committee.
The report will be sold by the Office of Technical
Services, Department of Commerce.
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