Low dose response

[HWADE@aol.com]

To the Radsafe Community:

Spalding, Thomas, &Tietjen have shown that the life span of mice is
lengthened by exposure to low doses and dose-rates of radiation (1).

Presumably their results are not subject to the "Ecological Fallacy".

Mice and other laboratory animals are used to officially determine toxic
effects of other suspected mutagens; and their response to such is the basis
for governmental regulation of the mutagens.

Why is the data from this experiment not used as a basis for regulation of
human exposure to radiation?

1. Spalding,J.F.; Thomas,R.G.; Tietjen,G.L.;
 Life span of C57 mice as influenced by radiation dose, dose rate and age at
exposure.
Report UC-48, LA 9528, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, 1982.

H.Wade Patterson
hwade@aol.com