The question came up as to the safety of the salt we eat
. Could there be any radiation contamination in salt? Come with me on an exploratory adventure to see if Redmond Real Salt has any radiation contamination. We use this tasty organic salt everyday, and the company is literally right down the street, so I thought I would look into the matter.
Real Salt is mined by Redmond Trading in Southern Utah, and the product is organic sea salt. Lake Bonneville formed the salt long ago in ancient times. This is ancient sea salt formed in pre-historical times. Real Salt is all natural, unlike the table salt we are used to. The only thing they do to refine Real Salt is crush it up.
We have to look at the Nevada nuclear testing grounds and see if this would have any effect on our savory product. Two counties in Utah had some significant radiation fallout from the Nevada testing center. The Real Salt mine is located approximately 300 miles from the Nevada location, and approximately 125 miles from the two counties in Utah that were effected. the National Cancer Institute regards this as a safe distance and would not consider this hazardous.
Real Salt Natural Sea Salt comes from approximately 300 feet below the surface of the earth. This would provide adequate shielding to protect the organic sea salt from any radiation contamination. Experts learn that 3.6 inches of compact earth cut the levels of radiation in half. Simple mathematics reveal that the radiation levels would be reduced by 50%, 83 times.
Lets not forget the factor of time into the equation. Scientists use a 7-10 rule that reveals gamm radiation retains ten percent of its exposure after 7 times the length in time occurs. After 7 hours, ninty percent of the radiation would be gone, and after an additional 2 days the remaining ten percent is almost entirely gone. The last Nevada test was completed over 50 years ago.
The radiation exposure to Real Salt is simply not very conclusive. I'm sure any of us would wish that we were 300 feet underground and 300 miles away from any nuclear testing. Anyway the people over at Redmond Real Salt are so concerned about the safety of thier product they actually did some testing. The test came back positive for radiation. Radiation amounts equaled 8lbs of Real Salt had the same amount of radiation contamination as one quart of clean drinking water. Conclusive evidence. Investigations shows that Redmond Real Salt is safe.