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Test To Farad
Oysters' Food
RALEIGH (North Caro
lina). — Oysters will he
made radioactive in Beau
fort (North Carolina) by
the Atomic itnergy com
mission and the Fish and
Wild Life Service, to de
termine what an oyster
likes to eat.
fpiNY amounts of radio-active
!- chemical substances, with
organisms which scientists be
lieve appeal to an oyster's ap
petite, will be shot ' into tanks
containing oysters.
As the organisms grow,
they absorb the radio-iso
topes and the oysters will eat
treated food.
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