[ RadSafe ] DEADLY radon...again

Fri Feb 4 17:44:47 CST 2011

Better inform the milk folks from the FDA since milk is their purview. On second thought, make a one line deletion and initial right here on Radsafe since I know you will agree this is another example of TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much government regulation!!

John Dixon

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From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Glenn R. Marshall
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 8:59 AM
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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] DEADLY radon...again

And yet another environmental hazard that many of you probably never thought about:  milk.  Yes, the EPA now regulates milk.  Why?  Because it contains fat, which is of course oil.  So a large milk spill is now an oil spill!  I feel safer now.  I swear I am not making this up.

Lactating cows beware!  

Glenn Marshall, CHP, RRPT

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From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Baumbaugh, Joel T CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 55360
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 8:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] DEADLY radon...again

I read that second sentence and I actually "sighed" at my desk... LoL...  I'm glad you wrote to them Mike... Sensationalism is alive and well I'm sorry to say...  Hey, maybe you could re-direct them to Di-Hydrogen Monoxide... http://www.dhmo.org/.  That kills MANY more people than Radon Gas every year and those are solid statistical figures...

Joel Baumbaugh
SSC-Pacific
(Sunny) San Diego,

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One of our local news stations is running this tonight:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Middle Tennessee has some of the highest levels of radon in the country. The radioactive gas kills thousands every year. The widow of a Middle Tennessee Sheriff believes it may have killed her husband, and now she has cancer. NewsChannel 5 Investigative reporter Ben Hall looks at the danger inside their home, and what you should do to protect yours. Watch the report Thursday night on NewsChannel 5 at 10 p.m.

I sent them an email:

Radon does NOT kill thousands of people each year. Ultra-conservative models that fit functions through very high radon exposures and extrapolate down to normal, daily exposures, when projected over large populations, predict theoretical deaths. Money spent on mitigating these exposures could be spent on improving roads, vehicle safety, etc. and would save ACTUAL lives.

Mike

Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP
Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Vanderbilt University
1161 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37232-2675
Phone (615) 343-4628
Fax   (615) 322-3764
e-mail     michael.g.stabin at vanderbilt.edu internet   www.doseinfo-radar.com

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