Table 3.
Fallout 739»249py in a typical diet for New York, 1972°; data from
Ref. 3.
Food product
.
Consumption,
ke/yr
ny
Shellfish
1
Concentration,
Intake,
pCi/kg (fresh)
pci/yr
0.011
0.011
Bakery products
44
0.0085
0.37
Whole grain products
ll
0.0060
0.066
Fresh fruit
59
0.0051
0.30
3
0.0048
0.014
“Fresh vegetables
48
0.0043
0.21
Root vegetablés
10
0.0035
0.035
Poultry
20
0.0033
0.066
Flour
34
0.0028
0.095
Meat
79
0.0026
0.20
Fresh fish
8
0.0016
0.013
Rice
3
0.0016
0.005
Potatoes (peeled)
38
0.0014
0.053
Eggs
15
0.0012
0.019
Macaroni
3
0.0012
0.004
22
0.0009
0.019
200
<0.0003
<0,06
28
<0.0003
<0.007
11
<0.0002
<0,002
511
0.0003
0.12
Dry beans
Canned vegetables
Milk
Fruit juice
,
Canned fruit
Tap water (1973)
Total intake
1.6
“Except for tap water — 1973.
on the average, should contain fall-
obtained for terrestrial food items*?
out levels of plutonium similar to
are given in Table 4.
those in food consumed by New Yorkers
detection limits (with 95% confidence)
Plutonium concentrations in the New
were available for some samples
York diet are abstracted from a
because of the limited sample size
report by Bennett in Table 3.3
obtainable from the existing inven-
Only plutonium
some recent plutonium data from
tory of food products on the island.
the June 1975 Bikini Survey by one
However, from those samples (papaya,
of the authors? and earlier data
pig muscle) where there was sufficient