Paul Saladino· MD
So, you can see here on the CDC website, .035 um millisieverts of cosmic radiation if you were to fly within the United States. Pretty small amount, but they actually then break it down uh for the average annual dose from natural sources of radiation. The inhalation, 2.28 millisieverts. Uh 73% just from inhaling, I guess I guess cosmic dust, radioactive dust. Um and you have some from the internal by ingestion, .29 millisieverts. Well, as you'll see, drinking some of these bottled waters, you could get much more than .29 millisieverts of radiation. Whether or not that's important is remains to be seen. Uh terrestrial exposure is .21 millisieverts. So, just wanted to put all of that in context for you guys as we begin to look at some of these waters. So, what waters do we think about? Well, let's start with this one, which is the natural radioactivity content in Italian bottled mineral waters. Believe me, I love these guys as much as you, but if you look at the results, you can see here that some of the waters like San Pellegrino, uh I can't highlight it, but look at the um the gross beta in San Pellegrino. Beta are beta particles, which are essentially like electrons, is 487, plus or minus 162.