RE:- Re: saftey of being in the proximity of someone on RAI therapy

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

Did the owner of the cat have a license to receive

radioactive material (in the cat) from the

veternarian?  



--- Diane Griffiths <DGriffiths@EHSO.EMORY.EDU> wrote:



> > supposed to do with the "hot" urine and feces

> collected in 

> > its litter box.

> > Her veterinarian only said to make sure she

> collected it, but 

> > had no advice on what to do with it once

> collected. I can't 

> >remember the isotope's half life so she could decay

> it out before 

> 

> If a cat is given I-131 for ablation, generally the

> owners are told to

> obtain flushable litter and flush everything doen

> the toilet. They are also

> instructed to hold the disposable litter box for

> about a month before

> throwing it out in the normal trash.

> 

> There was a case in Mass. a few years back where an

> owner did get fined for

> putting the radioactive kitty litter in his trash.

> It set off waste alarms

> and they found radioactive kitty poop and other

> items in the trash that

> allowed them to find out whose trash it was. He

> ended up getting fined

> $3,856.00.

> 

> Diane Griffiths

>

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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

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