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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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