-° Again, just the cocount estimate is totally out of line.
If the
other two food products are included average daily caloric intake is 14,700
calories per day.
I venture to say that if this
were the true route of
consumption there would be no such thing as a small Marshallese.
In addition to our sources of estimating the average daily coconut intake
in our reports of 300 g of coconut fluid per day and 100 g coconut meat we
have more recent direct observations of Jan Naidu, of Brookhaven National
Laboratory.
He has been living with people at both Rongelop and Uterik atolls
for 6 weeks at a time and has been eating the native diet.
His own
personal experience for average daily coconut intake is very near
our 400 g per day total (private communication Jim Naidu, BNL).
Ke further states that he has not observed a coconut intake anywhere
near that proposed in the Bramlitt draft and feels it would be physically
impossible to consume such a diet.
I think the total daily mass and calorie analyses I have gone
through
would indicate this to be the case.
The net result is that I feel the dose estimates based upon !37 Cs,
39Sr and transuranic intake via coconut are too high by an order of
magnitude based upon dietary intake alone.
Fe TT.
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