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UiE COTULLA RECORD
Pa^e Four
FRIDAY. MARCH 26, 1956
COTULLA. TEXAS
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TIP TO HOUSEWIVES on how to cleanse fruits
and vegetables of radioactive material if they
became contaminated is provided by radiological
expert ,and housewlfe Hr. Rosalind Yalow of the
U. S. Veterans Hospital, New York. At a demon-
stration during a Radiological School sponsored
by the Federal Civil Defense Administration, she
shewed how to prepare fruits or vegetables for
eating when the outside is “contaminated" by
fallout particles. (FCDA Photon i
Housewives might have to handle radioac-
tively contaminated fruits and vegetables as
gingerly as a newborn baby for a time if their
food stocks are ever exposed to fallout.
Under those circumstances, radiological ex-
pert Dr. Rosalind Yalow, a housewife and staff
member of the New York Veterans Administra-
tion Hospital, emphasises that a housewife would
have to take special precautions to avoid contact
with radioactive particles in preparing food.
...
FRESH FOODS most likely to be exposed to
fallout contamination would be those coining
directly from home garden plots, open fruit
stands, or left near an open window in a fallout
area. Fruits and vegetables left on open pantry
shelves would have more of a chance of being
contaminated than those in closed cupboards or
refrigerators.
This so-called “contamination" would af-
fect only the surface of fruits and vegetables
unless, through careless peeling or washing,
a housewife allowed the center of the fruit to
become contaminated.
Dr. Yalow had the following tips to avoid this:
1 • Use fruits and vegetables which were pre-
w , • -d, or kept away from the open air such
oy would be in a refrigerator.
2. When washing produce, use running water
if possible, providing it comes from a covered
source such as a well or a known uncontaminated
supply. If running water is not available, be sure
the water used to wash the vegetables is changed
frequently,
3. Fruits and vegetables with thick skins,
such as bananas, or those that may be easily
washed, such as apples, would be preferable. A
house-wife would be wise to handle these foods
with disposable towels during cleansing.
...
WITHOUT SPECIAL “know-how" and care,
Dr. Yalow- points out, it would be easy for a per-
son accidentally to transmit radioactive contam-
ination into fruits or vegetables by washing them
with “contaminated" water, or simply by han-
dling peeled fruits with “contaminated" gloves
or towels.
Writh this knowledge, a farmer’s wife, for
example, could in most eases make the pro-
duce from her fallout-exposed garden safe
and usable again by her family.
After ah attack, housewives would find out by
radio whether their homes were located in a fall-
out zone. Then they would learn whether to take
these precautions or not.
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The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, March 23, 1956, newspaper, March 23, 1956; Cotulla, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1161157/m1/4/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Alexander Memorial Library.