Re: EPA to look at how toxins affect kids, "Educating the Public"

[Steven Dapra <sjd@swcp.com>]

March 7



	I thank Ted de Castro for pointing out the error in my posting. He is

correct in saying that the Tooth Fairy Project has never claimed that Sr90

is causing any health problems.



	In his post wherein he also clarified this, Norm wrote:



	"What the TFP claims is that their (Mangano's) statistics show that

continual doses of low level radiation from nuke plants affect the health

of those most at risk - fetuses, infants, elderly, those with compromised

immune systems. Sr90 in baby teeth is merely a way of tracking low leveel

emissions from nukes. If sr90 has a half life of 29 years, then sr90 in

baby teeth should be trending down, not levelling off or going up. The

point is that if the extra sr90 (yes picocuries) is from nuke plants, than

the infant that ingested sr90 probably also was affected by all the other

radionuclides nukes emit."



	I have some questions for you, Norm.



	Has anyone other than Mangano obtained the results he obtained?  If so,

where was the other results published?



	What are the "other radionuclides"?



	What is the pathway from the reactor to the person (be he born or unborn)

who is alleged to have been affected by exposure to these "other

radionuclides"?



	Who did the work showing the pathway(s) and where was it published?



	As Bill Prestwich showed yesterday on RADSAFE, the unborn child is bathed

in radioactivity continuously.  You, Norm, wrote that "infants, [the]

elderly, [and] those with compromised immune systems" have their health

affected by "continual doses of low level radiation from nuke plants".

What are these doses in millirems per year?  Since infants, the elderly,

and those with compromised immune systems are constantly exposed to natural

background radiation why isn't their health affected by this exposure?  I

don't think even you are going to claim that "nuke plant" emissions cause

higher exposure than naturally occurring background exposure.  How can you

maintain that infants are affected by power reactor exposure but -

apparently - are not affected by natural background?



	We take radionuclides into our bodies every day from the food we eat and

the air we breathe (radon).  Do the food and air (to quote you, Norm) "emit

radiation that weakens the immune system, thus leading to higher levels of

cancers like lymphoma."?  



	Are you or the TFP suggesting that lymphoma is caused by reactor

emissions?  If you are, who made these findings and where were they published?



	As I said before, if you don't have the answers find someone who does and

let us know.



Steven Dapra

sjd@swcp.com









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