RE: Radioisotope Dispenser

["Jean-Francois, Stephane" <stephane_jeanfrancois@merck.com>]

We have a device for tritiation that do exactly what you are explaining
but not for P-32. You would need a close inventory control for this type
of set-up since P-32 have only a 14.3 days half-life !  I would rather
have a fresh and "garanteed activity" shipment daily then to have to
rely on users or other system for recording the uses and perform the
decay corrections etc.  But please let us know how it works, I'm curious
!

Stephane JF.
RSO
Gestion du Risque\Risk Management
Merck Frosst Canada 

* 514.428.8695
Fax: 514.428.4917
*stephane_jeanfrancois@merck.com

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> From: 	Sue M. Dupre[SMTP:dupre@arundel.Princeton.EDU]
> Sent: 	Monday, January 19, 1998 3:40 PM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	Radioisotope Dispenser
> 
> Good Afternoon!  I'm told that Amersham sells a dispensing device for 
> radioactive stock solutions such that you could buy a large amount of 
> of some standard P-32 solution, say, and then dispense it out to the 
> users at your institution in smaller aliquots (I'm not sure of the
> name
> of the device).  One of our large departments is looking into this as
> a 
> way to cut down on radioisotope shipping charges.   
> 
> Have any of you had experience, good or bad, with a dispensing device 
> like this?  We, of course, have concerns about contamination control 
> and ALARA considerations (I understand that this device would hold a 
> few hundred millicuries of P-32; dispensing would probably be under 
> the control of a single staff member).  Please feel free to reply
> publicly 
> or separately to me at dupre@princeton.edu.  Thanks for your input!
>