PMID- 10466109
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19990914
LR  - 20090721
IS  - 0360-1234 (Print)
IS  - 0360-1234 (Linking)
VI  - 34
IP  - 5
DP  - 1999 Sep
TI  - Radionuclides in deer and elk from Los Alamos National Laboratory and the doses 
      to humans from the ingestion of muscle and bone.
PG  - 901-15
AB  - This paper summarizes radionuclide concentrations (3H, 90Sr, 137Cs, 238Pu, 
      239,240Pu, 241Am, and totU) in muscle and bone tissue of mule deer (Odocoileus 
      hemionus) and Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus) collected from Los Alamos 
      National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, lands from 1991 through 1998. 
      Also, the committed effective dose equivalent (CEDE) and the risk of excess 
      cancer fatalities (RECF) to people who ingest muscle and bone from deer and elk 
      collected from LANL lands were estimated. Most radionuclide concentrations in 
      muscle and bone from individual deer (n = 11) and elk (n = 22) collected from 
      LANL lands were either at less than detectable quantities (where the analytical 
      result was smaller than two counting uncertainties) and/or within upper (95%) 
      level background (BG) concentrations. As a group, most radionuclides in muscle 
      and bone of deer and elk from LANL lands were not significantly higher (p < 0.10) 
      than in similar tissues from deer (n = 3) and elk (n = 7) collected from BG 
      locations. Also, elk that had been radio collared and tracked for two years and 
      spent an average time of 50% of LANL lands were not significantly different in 
      most radionuclides from road kill elk that have been collected as part of the 
      environmental surveillance program. Overall, the upper (95%) level net CEDEs (the 
      CEDE plus two sigma for each radioisotope minus background) at the most 
      conservative ingestion rate (50 lbs of muscle and 13 lbs of bone) were as 
      follows: deer muscle = 0.22 mrem y-1 (2.2 microSv y-1), deer bone = 3.8 mrem y-1 
      (38 microSv y-1), elk muscle = 0.12 mrem y-1 (1.2 microSv y-1), and elk bone = 
      1.7 mrem y-1 (17 microSv y-1). All CEDEs were far below the International 
      Commission on Radiological Protection guideline of 100 mrem y-1 (1000 microSv 
      y-1), and the highest muscle plus bone net CEDE corresponded to a RECF of 2E-06, 
      which is far below the Environmental Protection Agency upper level guideline of 
      1E-04.
FAU - Fresquez, P R
AU  - Fresquez PR
AD  - Environment, Safety and Health Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM 
      87545, USA.
FAU - Biggs, J R
AU  - Biggs JR
FAU - Bennett, K D
AU  - Bennett KD
FAU - Kraig, D H
AU  - Kraig DH
FAU - Mullen, M A
AU  - Mullen MA
FAU - Ferenbaugh, J K
AU  - Ferenbaugh JK
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - J Environ Sci Health B
JT  - Journal of environmental science and health. Part. B, Pesticides, food 
      contaminants, and agricultural wastes
JID - 7607167
RN  - 0 (Radioisotopes)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Bone and Bones/*chemistry
MH  - *Deer
MH  - *Food Contamination, Radioactive
MH  - Humans
MH  - Laboratories
MH  - Meat/*analysis
MH  - Muscles/*chemistry
MH  - New Mexico
MH  - *Nuclear Reactors
MH  - Radioisotopes/*analysis
EDAT- 1999/08/31 00:00
MHDA- 1999/08/31 00:01
CRDT- 1999/08/31 00:00
PHST- 1999/08/31 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1999/08/31 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1999/08/31 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1080/03601239909373234 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Environ Sci Health B. 1999 Sep;34(5):901-15. doi: 10.1080/03601239909373234.