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Long-Term Health Effects of Radionuclides in Food and Water Supplies

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Radionuclides in the Food Chain

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More than 90 years have elapsed since the discovery of ionizing radiation and its capacity to cause various types of injury. In the meantime, studies of such injuries have received continuing impetus from the growing uses of radiation in medicine, science, industry, and nuclear energy. As a result, the biomedical effects of ionizing radiation have received greater study and are better known than those of any other environmental agent.

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    Gail D. Schmidt M.Sc. (Health Physicist) (Health Physicist)

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Upton, A.C., Linsalata, P. (1988). Long-Term Health Effects of Radionuclides in Food and Water Supplies. In: Harley, J.H., Schmidt, G.D., Silini, G. (eds) Radionuclides in the Food Chain. ILSI Monographs. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1610-3_17

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