RE: Nuclear Medicine Patients and Homeland Security

["Stabin, Michael" <michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu>]

> NRC has issued Information Notice 2003-22...

> The Notice thus "recommends" that nuclear medicine

> licensees:  (1) "... provide all patients that still contain 

> delectable [sic] amounts of radiation with an appropriate 

> explanation about the potential of alarming radiation 

> monitoring equipment."   



Are we sure that "delectable" is in error? Maybe that's what they meant

to say. I personally like a kBq or two in my chili, and why not on a

good steak, too? What's actually wrong in that phrase is the old

radioactivity/radiation confusion. I expect that from a journalist, not

the NRC.



Mike



Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP

Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences 

Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences 

Vanderbilt University 

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