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

[Donovan Arnold]

Mr. Force writes,
 
"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."
 
Yeah, unless the banana came from Ecuador and the milk came from a neon cow just outside the boarders of Fukushima.
 
Donovan Arnold
 
--- On Thu, 3/31/11, Ron Force <rforce2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Ron Force <rforce2003 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [Spam 6.31] Re: Is it on its way to Idaho?
To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 11:57 AM





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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