RE: Transport of Radioactive Diapers

["Karam, Andrew" <Andrew_Karam@URMC.Rochester.edu>]

I would think these would be exempt for the same reason a person's contact
lenses, wedding (or other) rings, the clothes on their body, or the
perspiration on their skin is exempt - while activity on any of these items
is technically not contained "within" the body, we can hardly expect them to
be removed and help pending decay, and they are so intimately a part of us
that they can be considered a part of the body.  After all, you wouldn't ask
someone with eyes as bad as mine to drive home without glasses, and I'm
certainly not going to send anyone home naked, regardless of the season!

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rodney Bauman [mailto:rodney_bauman@wssrap-host.wssrap.com]


The key words here are, "and are still in."  Certainly, DOT regulations
could
apply to transport of radioactive material (per the DOT's definition)
contained
within soiled diapers - since the radioactive material is no longer in the
human
being.
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