Table leg
Radioactivity in Milk*: SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA
Results of Composite Samples for Period Ending September 1958.
Date of
Calcium Content
grams/liter
collec~
-gl-
tion
10-14-57
ll-14
12-19
1-15-58
Sample
1.141
1.146
1.157
1.167
3-16
1.149
6-15
1.122}
4-14
5-15
8~17
9-17
*
12 Mo.
Average
Radioactivity in uuc/liter
Iodine - 131
Strontium - 89
Sample
Sample
12 Mo.
Average
20
0
0
0
1.146
1.141
1.130
1.131
1.150
1.161
0
12 Mo.
Average
an
9
21
0
1.133
10
0
240
30
27
1.131
1.137
22
9
18
Strontium - 90
Sample
12 Mo.
Average
1.7
9.6
5.0
59
he2
Barium - 140
Sample
12 Mo.
Average
43
47
26
0
6
Cesium = 137
Sample [12 Mo.
Average
40
49
33
44,
48
26
77
38
40
21
23
10.5
328
409
4.8
21
l2
20
19
102
54
50
55
29
29
24
17
24
2h
6.8
3.8
503
55
0
0
17
15
65
Ta
55
57
24,
Tel
48
6
18
7
58
This table was extracted from a press release (Jamary 5, 1959) prepared by the U. S. Public Health Service
which maintains a milk monitoring program of their own.