[ RadSafe ] Hawaii Health Guide - Big Island Dairy Farmersfight radiation with Boron

[franz.schoenhofer at chello.at]

Dear Jaro,

Thank you very much for this information. It is actually the first "real" information besides all that nonsense distributed in our Austrian massmedia, like 20 233 times higher than normal, a radiation of 1.55 mSv (no time given). Sorry to say but I did not find any better and reliable information on RADSAFE until now. 

The values you distributed make sense, especially since I have the first hand information on contamination of food and environment in Europe after the Chernobyl accident, so it is rather easy to compare and to make an educated guess about possible contamination by comparing the different distances. Sr-90 is of course not to be expected in measurable quantities, but since measurement of Sr-89 and to distinguish it from Sr-90 is more complicated, I am a little sceptic about the Sr-89 value. Nontheless the values reported are negligible.  

Nice to read the facts, but still one question is not answered: Who distributed this bluntant nonsense in Hawaii? Who made the farmers consider to feed "boron" to their cows? Finally: "Cui bono?" - Latin, meaning "For whose benefit?" 

Best regards,

Franz

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---- "Franta schrieb:
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> Time for a reality check....
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> http://hawaii.gov/health/radiation/may2update.pdf 
> Latest Milk Sample Shows Decreased Amounts of Radiation in Milk From Big Island Dairy Still Far Below Levels of Public Health Concern
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> Results of EPA laboratory analysis of a milk sample collected April 13, 2011 on the Big Island showed small amounts of Cesium-134 and Cesium-137. The amounts were 11 pCi/L and 10 pCi/L, respectively. The results for Iodine-131 were non-detect. These findings have decreased from the previous sample collected on April 4, 2011 and are still far below levels of public health concern.
> The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Derived Intervention Levels (DIL) for milk are 4700 pCi/L for I-131 and 33,000 pCi/L for Cs-134 and Cs-137 combined.
> Additional analysis was performed by the EPA on the milk sample collected on April 4, 2011. Trace amounts of Strontium-89 were detected (1.4 pCi/L).
> Strontium-90 was non-detect in this sample. These levels are below FDA's DIL of 4400 pCi/L for the Strontium-90 radionuclide group.
> The department is continuing to monitor all milk produced at Big Island dairies, as well as milk imported from California. We do not expect to see any levels of significant health impact and there is no need to take any protective action based on current guidance.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu on behalf of Roger Helbig
> Sent: Sun 29/05/2011 13:08
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> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Hawaii Health Guide - Big Island Dairy Farmers fightradiation with Boron
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> http://hawaiihealthguide.com/healthtalk/display.htm?id=915&hhsid=9ea42c3eb9d93ab4faf7ca3cd98ee6d8 
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> I strongly suspect that these well meaning dairy farmers are doing more harm than good.  Is that the case or does sodium borate do no harm?  If it does harm especially to the resulting milk, then the State of Hawaii's health department should be made aware of this.
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