Monitoring program for radionuclides in marketplace seafoods. Final report
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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