| 5. Agricultural
Products and Wildlife Sampling
 Another potential pathway for
contaminants to reach humans is through the food chain.
The ESER Program samples multiple, important agricultural
products, game animals, and garden lettuce around the INEEL and
Southeast Idaho. Specifically,
milk, wheat, potatoes, sheep, garden lettuce, big game, waterfowl, and
doves are sampled. Fish are
also sampled as available (i.e., when there is flow in the Big Lost
River). Milk is sampled
throughout the year. Sheep
are sampled during the second quarter.
Lettuce and wheat are sampled during the third quarter while
potatoes and waterfowl are collected during the fourth quarter.
Big game and fish are sampled as they come available.
See Table A-1, Appendix A, for more details on agricultural and
wildlife product sampling. This
section discusses results from milk, large game, lettuce and wheat
sampling during third quarter, 2001.
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