Nature 216, 385 - 386 (28 October 1967); doi:10.1038/216385a0

Reliability of Predictions of the Contamination of Milk with Fission Products in the United Kingdom

B. O. BARTLETT

ARC Radiobiological Laboratory, Wantage, Berkshire.

IT has been shown¹ that in the United Kingdom a satisfactory guide to the contamination of the average mixed diet with strontium-90 and caesium-137 from nuclear weapons tests is provided by measurements of these nuclides in milk. This is so both for individual years when the rate of fallout is high, and also for the total dietary intake integrated over many years.

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