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

[Carl Westberg]

Diane Sawyer told me we don't need to worry.  She gazed at me with that look she gives me through my (HD) television screen and I am reassured.  I won't stock up on potassium iodide pills yet.

Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:57:23 -0700
From: rforce2003 at yahoo.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [Spam 6.31] Re:  Is it on its way to Idaho?



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

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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