For Brawm from Bill re: Food Chain Radiation uptake and accumulation

I may have missed any explanations you had about your food chain samples but I had a few questions hopefully you will respond to:

1. Do you WASH the spinach, Kale, strawberry and arugala samples before testing or do you test them "as is". I am wondering if the radiation you have observed is actually INSIDE the plants or if it is rain residue.

2. I am also wondering whether you are including the roots or testing roots or will test root vegetables etc seperately when you test your samples? It occurs to me that different plants and different PARTS of the plants will accumulate radiation in different ways and amounts. For example, with strawberries did you test the ENTIRE plant or just the straweberry fruits themselves.

I guess what I am getting at is whether the leaves of the plants are accumulating the radiation inside (or even absorbing them from rain or particulate (dry) deposits and whther you can even tell or have a mans to tell how the radionuclides move through the produce tested (and which parts are more or less likely to be more contaminated.

3. I guess it would help to know too whether the samples you got (any of them) were grown in greenhouses or not and watered with rianwater or well water or tap water etc (to find the source of thaicontamination before it got into or on to the plants.

4. Finally, for now, I think it would be really helpful to many of us on this forum or who visit here to know about OTHER produce currently being grown outdoors in California which will end up in our supermarkets soon iof not already such as green peppers, baby carrots, fingerling potatoes, iceberg and other lettuce, etc AND, down the road, such things as oranges, almonds, avocados, etc that grow on trees which might accumulate and hold radiocesium in the fruit itself.

Right now frozen veggies and fresh fruit from last year are on my "eatable" list - but I want to get a sense of how much radiocesium will still be in such foods now (if fresh or being frozen or canned now) or might be in such foods in the months and year or so to come when harvest times arrive.

I am NOT eating strawberries so far this year unless they are frozen from last year, for example. But with RESULTS in the future if BRAWM keeps such tests up, I will be able to make fully informed decisions for myself and my family.

THANKS. I know I can be a pest. But i also know that like maybe 90% of the folks here would probabluy want ot get answers to most of not all these questions and, after all, you invited us here ---so...?