[Vision2020] [Spam 6.31] Re: Is it on its way to Idaho?

[Ron Force]

Well, if you drank a liter of milk and ate a banana, the banana would give you 
600 times the radiation dose of the milk. 


CRC Handbook on Radiation Measurement and Detection:

3520 picocuries per kilogram of banana.
3400 pCi/kg for white potatoes
4450 pCi/kg for sweet potatoes 
raw lima beans, 4640 pCi/kg
Note: this is due to naturally occurring Potassium 40, which may not accumulate 
in the body. Iodine does.


Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA




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From: Art Deco <deco at moscow.com>
To: Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thu, March 31, 2011 10:37:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [Spam 6.31] Re:  Is it on its way to Idaho?

 
Thank you, Chuck.
 
I wonder about the legitimacy of the so-called safety  standard itself.  Is 
it like other safety standards about other  substances of the past which have 
been found to be too conservative?  In  addition, what may be safe for the 
average members (within 1 standard deviation  of the mean) of the population, 
might not be safe for those that are more  susceptible than the average members.
 
w.
 
 
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Chuck Kovis 
>To: Andreas Schou ; Art Deco 
>Cc: Vision 2020 
>Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 9:29    AM
>Subject: Re: [Spam 6.31] Re: [Vision2020]    Is it on its way to Idaho?
>
>
>The Environmental Protection Agency said a March 25 sample of milk    produced 
>in the Spokane, Wash., area contained a 0.8 pico curies per    literlevel of 
>iodine-131, which it said was less than one five-thousandth of    the safety 
>safety guideline set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. . .    . . An EPA 
>spokesman said that while the agency isn't certain that the    iodine-131 found 
>in the sampled milk came from Fukushima, its discovery is    "consistent with" 
>what the agency knows has been released so far from the    damaged nuclear 
>reactors there. (Wall Street Journal article dated March 31,    2011)
> 
> 
>Naw, it ain't coming to Idaho, Andreas, just    Spokane.  Chuck Kovis


      
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