Re: AW: Hanford Site cleanup standards

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

I guess this is why we have lawyers.  When a new

technology, drug or consumer product shows to have a

negative effect, the lawyers get involved.  



--- Jerry Cohen <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET> wrote:

> 

> If  new technology is not applied, how is it known

> weather it presents a new

> hazard?

> If society were to avoid everything that MIGHT be

> hazardous, there would be

> no progress.

> Prudent precaution is , of course, a good idea. If

> only we could all agree

> on what is prudent and what isn't -----

> 

> 

> 

> From: William V Lipton

> To: Franz Schoenhofer

> Cc: Taylor, Douglas ; RuthWeiner@AOL.COM ;

> crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM ;

> tdc@XRAYTED.COM ; jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET ;

> Al.Conklin@DOH.WA.GOV ;

> jim.dukelow@PNL.GOV ; BLHamrick@AOL.COM ;

> radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 4:44 AM

> Subject: Re: AW: Hanford Site cleanup standards

> 

> 

> Many thanx, Franz, for expressing something that was

> bothering me, but I

> hadn't been able to express.

> You raised an important issue.  What are the

> responsibilities for an

> organization that develops a new technology, with

> new hazards, which are not

> yet regulated, and for which there are no published

> standards?

> 

>

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=====

-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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