Re: Transportation

[LIPTONW@detroitedison.com]

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49CFR171.8:  "Consumer commodity means a material that is PACKAGED (emphasis 
mine) and distributed in a form intended or suitable for sale through retail 
sales agencies or instrumentalities for consumption by individuals for 
purposes of personal care or household use.  This term also includes drugs and 
medicines."  i.e., a thorium lantern mantle is a consumer commodity in its 
original package, but NOT when it's attached to a survey instrument. 
Bill Lipton 



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So equip your survey instruments with a "consumer commodity" lantern mantle
(the old ones
that contained Thorium and worked well both as check sources and lantern
mantle, not the
new Gold Top mantles).  

Oh no, don't tell me - it's probably no longer a "consumer commodity" if
stuck on the side of a
survey meter!

And the individual sitting next to me on the plane that has just come from
treatment at the nuclear medicine section of the local hospital . . .

Barb Flook
bflook@asrr.arsusda.gov


>
>I do NOT believe that survey instruments containing radioactive material are a 
>"consumer commodity."  Thus, whether or not the source is "licensed", if it 
>meets the DOT definition of radioactive material (> 2 nCi/g), it must be 
>considered hazardous material, and must meet DOT and/or IATA requirements.  
>



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