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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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BARTLETT, B. Reliability of Predictions of the Contamination of Milk with Fission Products in the United Kingdom. Nature 216, 385–386 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216385a0
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