Re: contaminated Chinese wrist watches

["Frederic Dawson" <ydc90@dial.pipex.com>]

Information can be found at

http://www.nrpb.org.uk/R4-00.htm

In French
http://www.opri.fr/html_opri/temp_transfert/commupresse/communiqué%20de%20pr
esse%20101100.html

Fred Dawson
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England.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "J. J. Rozental" <joseroze@netvision.net.il>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: 18 December 2000 17:04
Subject: contaminated Chinese wrist watches


> Warning over radioactive wrist watches
>
> Mumbai |By A Correspondent | 10-12-00
> The Indian Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has sent out warnings of
> contaminated Chinese wrist watches made in Hong Kong.
>
> Dr K.S. Parthasarathy, Secretary, AERB, said, "The AERB has received from
> the Emergency Response Centre of the International Atomic Energy Agency
> (IAEA) a warning message about cobalt-60 contaminated wrist watches
> discovered in France."
>
> The Office of Protection against Ionizing Radiation (OPRI), France, found
> that about half of the 3,000 watches issued with the series number
T65007-3
> contained cobalt-60. OPRI has called for an immediate stop to the sale of
> these watches and urged purchasers to return the watches bought recently
> from a French supermarket chain of shops.
>
> The watches under the brand name TROPHY recently sold by the French
> supermarket were found to be contaminated in the link pins of their metal
> bracelets. The radioactivity was found to be due to cobalt-60.
>
> As per the currently available information, the watches were purchased
from
> Silktime, RM 1601, Cheung Fung Industrial Building, 23-29 Pak Tin Par
> Street, Tsuen Wan, N T Hong Kong and were assembled by More Good
Electronics
> Fty, Blk 2, Non-Staple Food, Ind Bldg, 35 Shen Yan Road, Sha Tuk Kok,
> Shenzhen, the People's Republic of China.
>
> Dr Parthasarathy told Gulf News that he had written to Silktime to find
out
> if any Indian trader had purchased these watches. Though there is no
> immediate danger, the Trophy brand of watches in this series will have to
be
> tested for the presence of radioactivity.
>
> Those who have purchased this brand of watches from anywhere, either in
Hong
> Kong or from any chain of shops, have been requested by the AERB to
contact
> Head, Radiological Protection and Advisory Division, Bhabha Atomic
Research
> Centre, Mumbai.
>
> Buyers in other cities could contact authorities at the Kalpakkam Atomic
> Power Project, near Chennai, and the Variable Energy Cyclotron laboratory
in
> Calcutta. The only such instance took place sometime in 1963 in the United
> States when radioactive rings were discovered. In fact, two and a half
kilos
> of gold was stolen and the metal was actually made with radon gas for the
> treatment of cancer patients.
> --------------------
>
>
>
> Office of Protection against Ionizing Radiation (OPRI), France
>
> http://www.opri.fr/
>
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>
> Jose Julio Rozental
> joseroze@netvision.net.il
> Israel
>
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