For Strontium-90 the EPA’s MCL is 4 millirem per then it’s been more difficult to access their data, but I’m
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year, or 8 pCi/L. 36 The EPA lists three different not sure why that is. There could be many reasons, other
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measurements for Strontium-90 detected in Hilo milk for than the political one.” After receiving this reply I promptly
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why hasn’t SB 3049 gone into effect yet? To me it all
HILO, HI
PASTEURIZED
19StrontiumStrontium-90
0.3
0.26
0.86
pCi/L
seems suspicious, but then again it is the era of Stuxnet
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JUL89 and 90
10
in Milk
and Prism - anything can happen.
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-1.1
1.3
5.3
pCi/L
So how much should we worry about all this?
MILK
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11
in Milk
Siegel says we shouldn’t worry ourselves to death, so to
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PASTEURIZED
04StrontiumStrontium-90
-0.45
0.43
1.8
pCi/L
speak, but he also says the placebo effect can only work if
MILK
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11
in Milk
the time is taken to develop real medicines and remedies.
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13StrontiumStrontium-90
0.16
0.56
2.1
pCi/L
In the case of Fukushima the government and its nuclear
MILK
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11
in Milk
industry counterparts have tried to pull the wool over our
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Strontium-90
0.37
0.21
0.69
pCi/L
eyes to create a placebo effect that won’t work, since
HI
MILK
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degree that gives 1/2the placebo effect something to compare
News reporting of Strontium-89 measurements in itself to. In this case out of sight out of mind just doesn’t
Hilo milk bring about questions of the accuracy of the data work. The problem is the killer is already out of sight, so
reported to the X