Re: REGULATIONS FROM SCRATCH

["Mike Bohan" <mike.bohan@yale.edu>]

        Reply to:   RE>REGULATIONS FROM SCRATCH

OH!,  and for you old timers out there, I remember the days when P.I.'s would
wax poetic about the good old days when they could do iodinations in their labs
on open benchtops!!!

Mike Bohan

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Date: 26/06/96 11:31 AM
To: Mike Bohan
From: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
Radsafers,

     Here are a few comments on why we might write regulations in a much
different form today than those we currently have in our federal and state
codes. 

     A significant problem in many radiation protection programs in research
is that our radsafe procedures, and the regulatory program that led to them,
are based on the uses of radioactive materials that were common 20-30 years
ago.  The uses have "downsized", but the regulatory impact has not (I think
the term "inertia" applies here).