Re: One last comment on Irradiation

[Kwan Hoong Ng <kng1@facstaff.wisc.edu>]

Dear John

What do you think of this? IAEA?

Kwan


At 08:59 AM 12/17/96 -0600, you wrote:
>Note that this "principle" has nothing to do with "radiation protection". It
>should be an embarassment to the serious radiation ommunity. It
>reflects governmental "radiation applications control policy" interests that
>will destroy the contribution that nuclear tesociety. That
>IAEA is complicit to these politically-motivated policies should be an
>embarassment to itself and the nuclear science and technology community. 
>
>Regards, Jim Muckerheide
>jmuckerheide@delphi.com
>jmuckerheide@state.ma.us
>
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> May I remind you of the internationally recommended basic principles of 
>> radiation protection. In particular the justification of a practice, briefly:
>> 
>> "A practice that entails or that could entail exposure to radiation should 
>> only be adopted if it yields sufficient benefit to exposed individuals or to 
>> society to outweigh the radiation detriment it causes or could cause".
>> IAEA - SS n. 115,  1994
>> 
>> This principle shall be taken into account by the national regulatory bodies 
>> to authorize a practice  that entails or that could entail exposure to
>radiation. > 
>
>> In other words, although food irradiation has a lot of known advantages, 
>> RADIATION SAFETY  has to be considered always. The practice should be 
>> adopted if it is suitable and there is no other "non-radioactive" option 
>> available.
>> 
>> Patricia Wieland
>> IAEA
>> e-mail: wieland@nepo1.iaea.or.at
>> 
>> 
>>  ----------
>> From: radsafe
>> To: Multiple recipients of list
>> Subject: One last comment on Irradiation
>> Date: Tuesday, 17. December 1996 06:50
>> 
>> X-Comment:  Radiation Safety Distribution List
>> 
>>      I personally hope we can close out this thread pretty soon.  I think
>>      we've reached the point of diminishing returns.  However, there still
>>      appears to be a miscommunication that I hope I capture here, in that
>>      Herr Franzhoeffer discusses the issue of whether foodstuffs ought to
>>      be irradiated in the first place, and whether ALL foodstuffs should be
>>      REQUIRED to be irradiated, while many of the rest of us appear to
>>      operate on the basic premise that the decision WHETHER to irradiate
>>      should be a strictly commercial or private decision, with the
>>      additional proviso that anyone who doesn't want to eat the stuff
>>      doesn't have to, because there are plenty of options and one should be
>>      ALLOWED to act independently of the government insofar as it is
>>      possible to do so.  This debate is, I believe, better suited to a
>>      discussion of national and political freedoms, rather than radiation
>>      safety.
>> 
>>      I promise to climb off my soapbox now.
>> 
>>      V/R
>>      George Cicotte
>>      george_cicotte@health.ohio.gov
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
Kwan Hoong Ng, PhD
Department of Medical Physics
University of Wisconsin
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