With almost no mammals producing milk for human consumption in the lower Hudson Valley, Indian Point sees no reason to measure the levels of Strontium-90 in mother's milk. Apparently, Humans producing milk for humans doesn't qualify. In the absence of common sense, see The Mother's Milk Project.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1399412/mothers_milk_and_indian_point.html?cat=8
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Rich, if pregnant moms were living in the open fields , eating grass grown in local pastures...(like farm animals do).. then the sampling of human milk for strontium might make some sense.
ReplyDeleteIn a society that ships food internationally... a society which drinks bottled water, wine from France, produce from Peru, and sushi from the far Pacific, it becomes problematical to discern what pathways the strontium might take to enter each mom's metabolism, and rather far fetched to seek to only blame a single potential offending source.
Question: Are you guys testing for benzine, DDT, dioxin, and other by products of automobile emissions, and coal burning fossil plant emissions?
If not....Don't you care?