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SINCE the manner in which the body handles ingested strontium is quite well established1–3, the chief problem of determining the relative strontium-90 hazard from food concentration data is that of defining the overall average diet with precision. Thus the usual problems concomitant with obtaining dietary intake for nutritional or other purposes apply. In addition to this there is the rather severe problem, generally of minor importance with respect to nutrients, of selecting for assay representative aliquots of individual food items. Whereas differences in the vitamins or mineral content by a factor of two are rare for a given food, differences in strontium-90 content by a factor of ten or more are not uncommon4.
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SCHULERT, A. Assessment of Dietary Strontium-90 through Urine Assay. Nature 189, 933–934 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/189933a0
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