RE: Carbon-14

["Engelbretson, David A." <DEngelbret@tmh.tmc.edu>]

We had some missing bactec vials and I was calc. the worst case scenario of
someone ingesting a vial containing 4 uCi.  Sounds crazy but our health
dept. would look at it that way.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	BLReider@aol.com [SMTP:BLReider@aol.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, October 24, 2000 7:02 PM
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> Subject:	Re: Carbon-14
> 
> You have to be careful when dealing with retention times of C-14.  In what
> 
> form was it taken into the body?  C-14 is used as a tracer and can be
> bound 
> to many tissues types.  The retention times will be dependent upon the 
> chemical form.
> 
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