Monitoring program for radionuclides in marketplace seafoods. Final report

Technical Report · Wed Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1988

OSTI ID:6603796

Curtis, W R

This report presents the results of a monitoring program, conducted in 1981 and 1982, by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to measure concentrations of man-made radionuclides in seafoods to determine effects from previous U.S. ocean disposals of low-level radioactive wastes (LLW). Commercially-marketed seafood samples were collected from Boston, Massachusetts, Atlantic City, New Jersey and San Francisco, California. Each of these cities is near a previously-used U.S. ocean disposal site for LLW. The data obtained during this monitoring program shows that the concentrations of man-made radioactivity in seafoods sampled are below levels of public health concern. The data are considered to be of normal background level, attributable to global fallout over the oceans.

• Research Organization: Office of Radiation Programs, Washington, DC (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6603796
• Report Number(s): PB-89-120786/XAB; EPA-520/1-88/010
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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