Re: News on BNL Deer

["John Johnson" <idias@interchange.ubc.ca>]

Radsafers

*****

 <Cehn@AOL.COM> wrote on Tuesday, February 19, 2002



> Although Green insisted the find posed no risk to humans who came into

contact with the deer, lab officials are concerned for people who hunt in

the area.

>

> "Eating the deer meat poses a health risk to humans," Green said. "But you

would have to consume almost 64 pounds of it. That's not likely to happen."

>

> Tested Several Times

>

> The fawn's carcass was found near the William Floyd Parkway on Jan. 9. The

animal appeared to have been struck by a car.

>

> After several radiation tests on the deer, lab scientists found it

contained 21 picocuries of radioactive material. A picocurie is a unit used

to measure radioactivity.

******



I also ask "pCi of what?". People who consume game will have "higher",

NOT "high"  whole body Cs-137 than people that don't. I saw good examples of

this when I ran the WBC at Chalk River. We could tell when workers were

eating deer that they got from Northern Ontario and Quebec because it had a

higher Cs-137 concentration from "fallout" than those obtained around the

outsde of the CR

exclusion area.



John R Johnson











************************************************************************

You are currently subscribed to the Radsafe mailing list. To unsubscribe,

send an e-mail to Majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu  Put the text "unsubscribe

radsafe" (no quote marks) in the body of the e-mail, with no subject line. You can view the Radsafe archives at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/