Word: milked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immediate area received was 80 millirems; by comparison, an average American absorbs 200 millirems each year. HEW Secretary Joseph Califano testified that he expected no additional cancer deaths among the population within 50 miles of the plant. He also announced that the Food and Drug Administration was testing food, milk and river and drinking water in the vicinity of the site. No hazardous increase in radioactivity had shown up. For years to come, however, HEW will monitor the health of persons in the area. Asked what they would tell a family with small children living near the site, the witnesses...
According to Hershey officials, Hershey factories stopped using the new milk immediately after the accident. The company kept production lines moving by using inventories of partially processed chocolate containing milk received before the accident, they said...
HERSHEY, Pa.--Hershey milk chocolate bars do not contain any radioactively contaminated milk, so chocolate lovers have nothing to fear, a Hershey Foods Corporation official said yesterday...
Health officials feared that the pastures where Hershey cows graze might be contaminated by radioactivity from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. Cows' milk could absorb cancer-causing radioactive material from the grass which the cows eat, the officials added...
However, radiation levels in samples of milk taken in the nuclear plant area ranged from undetectable to far below danger levels, Pennsylvania state officials said...