Re: Press Conference Thursday November 2 on SR-90 In Baby

[Steven Dapra <sjd@swcp.com>]

Oct. 23

	My mistake -- I forgot to put in a subject line on my earlier posting
about Sr-90 and the Tooth Fairy project.  My post follows.

	I went to the STAR page's Tooth Fairy Project page and found this:

	"Most of the strontium in the baby teeth is transferred to the fetus by
the mother during pregnancy."

	Is this true?  Can Sr-90 cross the placenta?  (If it is  transferred "by
the mother" it would have to cross the placenta, wouldn't it?)

Steven Dapra
sjd@swcp.com


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