Re: Environmental Epidemiology and Toxicology "Improvements in local

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@hotmail.com>]

>  http://www.stockton-press.co.uk/eet/v2n1/pdf/7600024a.pdf.
>
>Environmental Epidemiology and Toxicology "Improvements in local infant 
>health after nuclear power reactor closing"

Comment 1:
There are no doses discussed in the article. The first thing one should ask 
is - how do the extra doses compare with doses from the natural background 
radiation?

Comment 2:
Since the Radiation and Public Health Project (Carrol St. 9) is located in 
Brooklyn and the work involves childhood diseases - they could, as a project 
sidetrack, go to the SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn (about 2-3 miles 
from Carrol St. 9, located between Park Slope and Manhattan) and also learn 
about childhood allergies (there are lots - I have spoken with the health 
staff working with that). Brooklyn has extreme levels of air pollutants - 
anything open gets dirty in about 10 days - a paper doesn't give you the 
feeling of a paper when touched, you can't see well throught the windows 
after a month and so on (I lived there for more than a year - I have never 
been in such a dirty area before - if you are a smoker you don't need 
cigarettes because you can smoke the air directly). I wonder if anyone knows 
what kind of department the work comes from (at Carrol St. 9) because I 
never heard about any radiation department there (is it academic by any 
chance or could it be some other type of institution?).

Obviously my own ideas and opinions that some others may not share,

Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com

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