TOOTH FAIRY PROJECT RELEASES FINDINGS AT NEW YORK PRESS CONFERENCE:
CANCER CAUSING RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS FOUND IN CHILDREN'S TEETH
LEVELS EQUAL TO THOSE DURING ABOVE-GROUND NUCLEAR TESTING YEARSALEC BALDWIN TO VISIT STOCKTON COLLEGE ON NOVEMBER 9TH TO HOLD A FORUM ON THE TOOTH FAIRY PROJECT AND THE EFFECTS OF LOW-LEVEL RADIATION
Dr. Jay M. Gould, Director of the Radiation Public Health Project (RPHP) and Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass - RPHP Co-Director and author of along with actor/activist Alec Baldwin, member of the Board of Directors of Standing for Truth About Radiation (STAR), hosted a press conference on Thursday, October 21 in Manhattan to announce that initial studies of baby teeth show very high levels of cancer causing strontium 90.
With the end of above-ground testing of nuclear weapons it was widely assumed Americans would no longer have to worry about cancer-causing Strontium-90 contaminating their food or drinking water. However, tooth study sponsored by the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) indicates that radiation exposure did not stop when bomb testing stopped. In fact, Americans have continued to ingest levels of Strontium-90 at rates equal to those during the Cold War.
"The levels of Strontium-90 should have declined to almost undetectable levels by now," says Dr. Ernest Sternglass, an Radiation and Public Health Project co-director and radiologist, who played a key role in the original banning of atmospheric testing. "Therefore the only plausible explanation is that Strontium-90 has continued to escape from either underground tests or from nuclear reactors."
The Radiation and Public Health Project findings are based on an analysis of about 500 teeth from children born after the cessation of the final above-ground nuclear tests in 1980.
One scientific paper based on the Radiation and Public Health Project results has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Health Services, and a second has been accepted for presentation later this month at an international meeting of scientists in Italy.
"Test results of baby teeth from the Salem County and Toms River area show high amounts of Strontium-90" , reported Norm Cohen, Executive Director of the Coalition for Peace and Justice, a grass-roots organization who is helping to organize the Tooth Fairy baby teeth collection project in Salem County. "We urge concerned citizens throughout South Jersey to continue to send in baby teeth for testing, so that we will have a statistically reliable amount of teeth."
Please call Melissa Medford at 609-935-9277 or go the Radiation and Public Health Project website for information on how to donate baby teeth.
Alec Baldwin, along with Joseph Mangano, Research Associate for the Radiation and Public Health Project, Norm Cohen, and Melissa Medford, will be appearing at Stockton College on Tuesday, November 9th, 4:30 PM, in the A-wing lecture hall to discuss the Tooth Fairy Project and the health effects of low-level radiation.
CONTACT: Norm Cohen 609-601-8583/8537
Alec Baldwin (via the STAR Foundation, Scott Cullen) 516-324-0655
Joe Mangano: 718-857-9825
Melissa Medford: 609-935-9277