From John Jeffers
Kendal, Cumbria
I am concerned that the headline “Did lax officials let Britons drink a
deadly pinta?” (This Week, 22 February, p 5) gave a misleading impression of my
views.
I focused on how it was possible to determine the scale and extent of the
radionuclide depositions from Chernobyl on British grasslands. I emphasised the
importance of having a sound statistical basis for field sampling, but at no
time did I allege that Ministry of Agriculture officials were lax, as the
headline suggests.
