Re: Petition to HPS board regarding health effects of radiation [FW]

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU>]

At 08:12 AM 8/4/03 -0400, Franta, Jaroslav wrote:   >>>> 

FYI, from another listserv.....  
A petition to HPS Board of Directors on health effects of radiation:  
"NOW BE IT RESOLVED: The Health Physics Society Board of Directors believes such studies (both epidemiological and cell) [on the Taiwan people exposed to Co60 over the years] should be performed and requests the President of the Society to develop a program of actions by the Society the purpose of which is to ensure the studies are performed in a timely manner.  The actions may include 
**********************************  August 4, 2003  Davis, CA 
Actually, those Taiwan people were not exposed "to Co60", but rather to the ionizing radiation emitted by Co-60. 
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