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The diet used in this dose assessment was recently developed from
a survey conducted of the Enewetak people on Ujelang Atoll by the
Microesian Legal Service (MLS).
The field notes from Mr. Michael
Pritchard, who conducted the survey for MLS,
along with a sample questionnaire.
are attached in Appendix C
A detailed summary by LLL on that
survey is also included -in Appendix C. The school teacher on Ujelang Atoll joined Mr. Pritchard and MLS
staff in conducting the survey.
population were interviewed.
Approximately 25 percent of the Ujelang
The breakdown by age group was:
36
Adult males
36
Adult females
19
12 through 17 y of age
37
4 through 11 y of age
16
O through 3 y of age
A total of 144 persons were interviewed with 2 females declining to
complete the dietary questionaire.
Some people were away from the atoll at the time of the interview
and so selection was
were available.
limited to those households where several people
The households were selected at random from the
available pool with constraints to meet the goals outlined in Chart 2 of
Appendix C.
Throughout our discussions of diet and estimated dose, three
expressions are used extensively:
and subsistence foods.
normal conditions,
Normal conditions are those existing within a
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