[ RadSafe ] More radioactive debris turning up in garbage

[John Jacobus]

Maybe the laws need to be changed so that patient
waste is exempted.  See
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part020/part020-2003.html

10 CFR 20.2003(b)Excreta from individuals undergoing
medical diagnosis or therapy with radioactive material
are not subject to the limitations contained in
paragraph (a) of this section.

--- Jose Julio Rozental <joseroze at netvision.net.il>
wrote:
> 
>
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
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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