Re: Societies issue primer on radiological terrorism threats:Kearny practicalities

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

I certainly agree about the controversy surrounding

the use of KI.  That is why the NRC was reluctant to

make it manditory for emergency response.  (Their

recommendations were that if should be considered by

licensees.  My impression is that the current push to

distribute KI was pushed upon them.)  



If you look at the Recommendations of tne National

Resarch Council report on page 5,

http://books.nap.edu/books/0309090989/html/5.html

KI is not recommend for all individuals.  It should be

given to those at the greatest risk, i.e., "infants,

children, and pregnant and lactating women."  



My feeling is that the distribution of KI distracts

the public from the need to protect yourselves from

the other fallout components.  As one of the

co-authors or the this report, I assume you considered

this issue.





--- "David V. Becker" <dvb2001@med.cornell.edu> wrote:

> I would like to point out that the issue of KI

> availability and use is fairly complicated,  has

> occupied the attention of thyroidologists for some

> time  and has generated a large endocrinological

> and public health literature.  The American Thyroid

> Association  organized and presented a full day

> symposium on  February 28,2003 in Washington DC 

> "Public Health Strategies for Protecting the

> Thyroid with Potassium Iodide in the Event of a

> Nuclear Incident."

> 

> The National Research Council of the National

> Academies convened a select committee to "Assess the

> Distribution and Administsration of Potassium Iodide

> in the event of a Nuclear Incident"  and

> published an authoritative monograph with that title

> by the National Academies Press early in 2004

> and on their website http://www.nap.edu.  In

> addition,the FDA, NRC, NCRP, WHO and NRPB present

> detailed and extensive information on the web.

> 

>                      David V. Becker,MD

>                      New York Hospital -Weill

> Cornell Medical College

> 

> . . .



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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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