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Re: Article: Irradiated mail



There was a brief item on yesterday's TV news about mailhandlers being made

ill by the irradiated Capitol Hill mail.



The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.





----- Original Message -----

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

To: "RadSafe" <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 12:53 PM

Subject: Article: Irradiated mail





> 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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