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VOSE and Koontz1 have suggested that because mixed legume-grass herbage contains a higher level of strontium than grass it would be desirable to restrict dairy cows to an all-grass diet if the level of strontium-90 in milk ever rose to a level giving cause for concern. In the same communication these authors report that the uptake of strontium by herbage is directly related to the uptake of calcium.
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PURVES, D. Implications of Restricting Cows to a Clover-free Diet in Order to Reduce the Strontium Content of Milk. Nature 184, 1408 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841408a0
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