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Show USU Gains Grant-In Grant-In Animal Studies A grant of $8,700 from the Animal Husbandry Research Division Di-vision of Agricultural Research Service, USDA. was recently received re-ceived by scientists at Utah State University. Recipients of this grant are Dr. Melvin Anderson, Agricul-I Agricul-I ture Research Service, USU, and Dr. George Stoddard, head dairy department, for the purpose of identifying the sources of Iodine 131 in milk and to determine proper herd management and methods of feeding when fallout is present; to determine more precisely the relation of 1-131 .2 i 1 1 J 1 1 -a imaKe 10 me level oi contamination contamina-tion and to determine the paths of metabolism and excretion of 1-131 in the animal body. According to Dr. Stoddard, information in-formation on methods of identifying identi-fying the source of 1-131 contamination con-tamination and of reducing the amount of radioactive Iodine in milk is needed by the dairy industry, in-dustry, the government and the public. Dr. Stoddard indicated that, "If it ever becomes a problem prob-lem we will know how to cope with it." |