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Methodology for Surveillance of the Food Chain as Conducted by the United States

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Radionuclides in the Food Chain

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The Environmental Radiation Ambient Monitoring System (ERAMS) was organi­zed in 1973 by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide data on levels of radioactive pollutants for determining environmental trends and calculating the radiation dose and health risk on a national scale, to monitor pathways from major sources of population exposure, and to respond to accidental releases of radioactivity into the environment. This system was formed from the consolidation and redirection of separate monitoring networks that had been oriented primarily to measurements of fallout. Earlier networks were modifed by changing collection and analysis frequencies and sampling locations and by increasing the analyses for some specific radionuclides.

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  1. US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Radiation Programs, Eastern Environmental Radiation Facility, Montgomery, AL, 36109, USA

    C. R. Porter & J. A. Broadway

  2. Nuclear Engineering and Health Physics Programs, School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA

    B. Kahn

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  1. P.O. Box M-268, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, USA

    John H. Harley Ph.D. (Consultant) (Consultant)

  2. US Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Rockville, MD, 20857, USA

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

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

  4. United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), Vienna International Center, A-1400, Vienna, Austria

    Giovanni Silini Ph.D. (Secretary) (Secretary)

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Porter, C.R., Broadway, J.A., Kahn, B. (1988). Methodology for Surveillance of the Food Chain as Conducted by the United States. 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_22

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