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Removal of Iodine¹³¹ from Milk¹

Dairy Department, University of Tennessee and University of Tennessee—Atomic Energy Commission, Agricultural Research Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

ABSTRACT

Milk and certain other foods have received considerable attention as a channel by which fission products enter the human body. Because of the ease of sampling in various parts of the country, and because it is produced throughout the year, milk is analyzed each month by the United States Public Health Service for the concentration of radioactive fission products. Though no I¹³¹ was reported in samples collected from 12 cities in October, 1959, figures in the fall of 1957, in two cities, were greater than 900 µµc/liter, or about one-third the level considered by the Public Health Service to be the maximum permissible concentration.

I¹³¹ could become a serious general problem in case of large amounts of world-wide fallout, or a serious local problem in case of a nuclear reactor accident. Fission produces a high I¹³¹ yield, which is strongly adsorbed and held by cellulose-like materials and by dusts, when in carrier-free form, and is concentrated in the thyroid gland (1).

¹ This investigation was supported in part by U.S.P.H.S. research grant (E-2711-A) from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Health Service.