[ RadSafe ] More radioactive debris turning up in garbage

[Jose Julio Rozental]

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050426/NEWS02/504260336/1018/NEWS02
More radioactive debris turning up in garbage
By ROB RYSER
THE JOURNAL NEWS
     
Original publication: April 26, 2005
Low levels of a radioactive substance used to treat thyroid cancer, known as iodine-131, are tripping alarms at garbage collection plants in Westchester County about twice as often as they did last year, officials said yesterday. 

There have been 11 cases in 2005, compared to 10 cases in all of 2004, according to County Executive Andrew Spano, who is calling on physicians to leave better instructions with patients about throwing out personal-care products once they go home.

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Jose Julio Rozental
joseroze at netvision.net.il
Israel