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RADIOACTIVE Food - NOW Growing in CALIFORNIA

Thursday, April 14, 2011 5:23

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Radioactive Isotopes discovered in TOPSOIL, GRASS, SPINACH, STRAWBERRIES, CILANTRO, KALE and ARGULA and WILD MUSHROOMS in Alameda, California

SOURCE: UC Berkeley • College of Engineering • American Nuclear Society, UCB, Student Section http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/2525

In the tables below, we are providing two numbers for each of the isotopes. The first is a standard concentration unit of Becquerel per kilogram (Bq/kg) which is the number of particles decaying per second in each kilogram of the sample. The number in parentheses after the activity is the number of kilograms that one would need to consume to equal the radiation exposure of a single round trip flight from San Francisco to Washington D.C. (0.05 mSv). For more information on how this equivalent dose is calculated, the details are here: How Effective Dose is Calculated

The experimental setup used for the food testing is the same setup used for the Rainwater Collection Experiment.

TOPSOIL

Collection Date	Sample Mass	I131	I132	Cs134	Cs137	Te132	Data
	kg	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)
4/6/2011	1.04	12.5 ± 0.4 (89)	less than MDA	0.99 ± 0.13 (2,610)	1.5 ± 0.2 (2,510)	less than MDA	data
4/8/2011	0.91	7.9 ± 0.5 (140)	less than MDA	0.53 ± 0.15 (4,860)	1.2 ± 0.3 (2,990)	less than MDA	data

GRASS

Collection Date	Sample Mass	I131	I132	Cs134	Cs137	Te132	Data
	kg	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)
4/3/2011 10:00	0.40	9.8 ± 0.5 (113)	less than MDA	6.9 ± 0.3 (373)	6.9 ± 0.3 (537)	less than MDA	data
4/5/2011 08:30	0.36	6.9 ± 0.8 (161)	less than MDA	4.8 ± 0.4 (542)	3.1 ± 0.6 (1,195)	less than MDA	data
4/6/2011 20:00	0.26	7.5 ± 0.9 (149)	less than MDA	4.7 ± 0.5 (556)	4.9 ± 0.7 (752)	less than MDA	data
4/11/2011 07:30	0.51	2.0 ± 0.4 (553)	less than MDA	1.72 ± 0.18 (1500)	2.0 ± 0.3 (1890)	less than MDA	data

WILD MUSHROOMS

Collection Date	Sample Mass	I131	I132	Cs134	Cs137	Te132	Data
	kg	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)
4/2/2011 10:00	0.39	8.4 ± 0.5 (132)	less than MDA	0.63 ± 0.19 (4,110)	0.47 ± 0.19 (7,830)	less than MDA	data

SPINACH

Collection Date	Food Mass	I131	I132	Cs134	Cs137	Te132	Data
	kg	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)
4/8/2011 (Best By Date)	0.284	2.8 ± 0.8 (403)	less than MDA	less than MDA	less than MDA	less than MDA	data
4/6/2011 (Purchase Date)	0.30	less than MDA	less than MDA	less than MDA	less than MDA	less than MDA	data
4/7/2011 (Purchase Date)	0.25	1.3 ± 1.0 (831)	less than MDA	1.0 ± 0.3 (2,570)	1.3 ± 0.6 (2,810)	less than MDA	data

STRAWBERRIES

Purchase Date	Food Mass	I131	I132	Cs134	Cs137	Te132	Data
	kg	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)
4/1/2011	1.23	0.25 ± 0.14 (4,370)	less than MDA	0.69 ± 0.07 (3,780)	0.67 ± 0.10 (5,520)	less than MDA	data
4/7/2011	1.06	0.34 ± 0.21 (3,300)	less than MDA	0.52 ± 0.09 (4,930)	0.51 ± 0.15 (7,300)	less than MDA	data

CILANTRO

Purchase Date	Food Mass	I131	I132	Cs134	Cs137	Te132	Data
	kg	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)
4/4/2011	0.50	less than MDA	less than MDA	less than MDA	less than MDA	less than MDA	data

KALE

Purchase Date	Food Mass	I131	I132	Cs134	Cs137	Te132	Data
	kg	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)
4/6/2011	0.34	less than MDA	less than MDA	0.5 ± 0.3 (5390)	less than MDA	less than MDA	data
4/7/2011	0.38	0.9 ± 0.6 (1,190)	less than MDA	less than MDA	less than MDA	less than MDA	data

ARUGULA

Purchase Date	Food Mass	I131	I132	Cs134	Cs137	Te132	Data
	kg	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)	Bq/kg (kg**)
4/7/2011	0.38	less than MDA	less than MDA	0.49 ± 0.17 (5,240)	less than MDA	less than MDA	data

** The number in parentheses is the number of kilograms of the item that one would need to consume to equal the radiation exposure of a single round trip flight from San Francisco to Washington D.C. (0.05 mSv). To see how we calculate these numbers, please visit our explanation of the equivalent dose calculation.

Note: “MDA” is the estimated minimum detectable activity for a given isotope in the detector.

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