Monday, March 14, 2011

Excerpt...go to link and full article: North Coast Fallout fears prompt run on iodine

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20110314/articles/110319714

North Coast Fallout fears prompt run on iodine

Published: Monday, March 14, 2011 at 8:11 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, March 14, 2011 at 8:11 p.m.
Fear of nuclear fallout from Japan’s earthquake- and tsunami-battered nuclear power plants has created a nationwide scramble for potassium iodide, a compound that can protect thyroid glands from radioactivity.
“We sold out,” said Maxine Ward, who works in the supplement department of the Ukiah Natural Foods Co-Op.

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