Re: Shipping Limited Quantity of RAM

["Jeffery G. Derge" <derge@dtpax2.ncifcrf.gov>]

At 03:00 PM 2/27/96 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Please correct me if I'm mistaken but...
>Isn't a smoke detector classified as a "consumer commodity"
>and therefore exemept from the labeling, markering etc.
>requirements? 

You may well be right about the legalities of the labeling, etc, ... BUT

We have not been able to dispose of old smoke detectors for several years,
presumably because of the rad waste mess.

I'm sure I could drop it in my household trash, and no one would be the
wiser.  However, at the annual HAZMAT cleanup, they are specifically not
accepted.

If your initial assumption is correct, why the Catch 22?

Jeffery G. Derge
NCI-FCRDC, Frederick, MD
Derge@dtpax2.ncifcrf.gov