Article: Irradiated mail

["Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>]

I thought people would like to know want irradiation does to your mail.

Rather than send the whole article, I have only included the first paragraph

and a Web link



-- John 

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist 

3050 Traymore Lane

Bowie, MD  20715-2024



E-mail:  jenday1@email.msn.com (H)      



To view the entire article, go to

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58221-2002Jan29.html



A Recipe for Safe Mail



By Steve Twomey



Baked at 175 degrees, the government's mail must be set out to breathe these

days, like an opened bottle of wine. So the letters rest for hours in

circus-like tents in the parking lot of the shuttered Brentwood postal

facility, purging themselves of gases that have accumulated during

sanitization.



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