{"id":19,"date":"2021-08-31T14:40:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duob.org.uk\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2021-08-31T14:40:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:40:40","slug":"intake-of-depleted-uranium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.duob.org.uk\/intake-of-depleted-uranium\/","title":{"rendered":"Intake of Depleted Uranium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>The average adult annual intake of uranium is approximately 0.5 mg from the ingestion of food and drinking water. Another 0.6 mg should come from taking in air.<\/li><li>The ingestion of minute amounts of contaminated DU soil by young children can happen while they are playing.<\/li><li>Contamination of DU can also occur via contact through skin. This type of exposure is very low and almost insignificant.<\/li><li>Contamination from wounds or having contaminated fragments in the skin can help DU to enter the human systemic circulation.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average adult annual intake of uranium is approximately 0.5 mg from the ingestion of food and drinking water. Another 0.6 mg should come from taking in air. The ingestion of minute amounts of contaminated DU soil by young children can happen while they are playing. Contamination of DU can also occur via contact through skin. This type of exposure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duob.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duob.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duob.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duob.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duob.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duob.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duob.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}