Re: I131 Hospital Waste

[fearp@VAX.CS.HSCSYR.EDU (Peter Fear)]

I believe that the exemption is _only_ for sanitary sewer disposal and not
at all sewage systems. Some sewage systems have local regulations which do
not allow that.

There has been quite a lot in the local news concerning radioactive diapers
ending up at the garbage burning plant. A patient who is incontinent will
have a nuclear medicine scan and then will be sent home. They then wet the
diaper, it goes into the trash and to the plant where it sets off the
alarms.

Pete

> In the USA, there are no limits on patient excreta, in any venue of which I
> have knowledge.
>
> chris alston
> ccja@aol.com

Peter Fear
Radiation Safety Office
SUNY Health Science Center
750 E. Adams St.
Syracuse, NY 13210

(315)464-6510
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