Table 12b
Radioactivity in Milk: AUSTIN, TEXAS
Results of Composite Samples for Period Ending September 1958.
Date of
Calcium Content
grams/liter
collec—
ti
on
Sample
12 Mo.
|Average
Radioactivity in uuc/liter
Iodine - 131
Strontium ~ 89
Sample
Sample
s
12 Mo.
Average
|12 Mo.
Average
Strontium - 90
Sample
12 Mo.
Average
Barium - 140
Sample
12 Mo.
Average
Cesium - 137
Sample
12 Mo.
Average
AVAILABLE TO DATS
Nw
i
66-58
7=3
8-6
9-4
*
1.115
0
1.160
1.121
50
16
1.144
8
26
22
1
40
32
34
3.9
ig
6
15
3.5
5
74
48
51
43
This table was extracted from a press release (January 5, 1959) prepared by the U. S. Public Health Service
which maintains a milk monitoring program of their own.