RE: SI unit and other related topics

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

I was out of radsafe for a couple of days and now I am surprised to see the
avalanche of messages on SI units ! Is it really a radsafe topic ? How good
was that discussion on "relative size of units"  like Megabecquerel vesus
mCi ?  Can we say the same with pCi versus Bq ?  And who cares ? Some of us
(like myself) uses both without any problems, others are contesting with Si
units or other units... as long as you don't serve me any "historical units"
! Sure they will be glitches when doing conversions but how bad will they be
?

Enjoy life, speak many languages, learn many units ! Consider many opinions
!  Be educated ! Be free....

Stephane
RSO
Gestion du Risque\Risk Management
Merck Frosst Canada 

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*stephane_jeanfrancois@merck.com
My opinion, not my employer's

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> From: 	Scott D. Kniffin[SMTP:Scott.D.Kniffin.1@gsfc.nasa.gov]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, March 24, 1998 12:14 PM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	SI units and Food Irradiation
> 
	(snip)
> This is from the "Sometimes I hate it when I'm right" and 
> "irony sucks" departments: 
> 
> I was handed a copy of "Alternative Medicine" magazine late Friday night
> that 
> had an article on the "dangers" of food irradiation.  It had all the usual
> 
> trash and gosh-these-sound-like-anti-pasteurization-arguments bunk, with
> just 
> a hint of added paranoia!  My personal favorite was the picture of the 
> (I think) Hiroshima mushroom cloud next to a picture of a table of raw
> T-bone
> steaks.  The caption said something about the only people that would
> profit 
> from this are nuclear POWER industry.  After I thought about that, it
> seemed
> like it might not be such a bad idea if not for the bad PR it would
> generate.  
> 
> The ironic part came later on that page.  There was a paragraph about how 
> there is a move to change the units for lethal dose from 100,000 rads to 
> kilogray to make the dose sound smaller.  
> 
> I do plan to write a response, the hard part will be keeping it under 25
> pages.
> 
> 
> In other news, I have a question I'd like to ask of the medsafe/medphys
> (?)
> group regarding mercury toxicology and dental fillings but I don't really
> want to subscribe seeing how about 100 messages a day is quite enough.  
> Can anybody out there give me a hand here?  Thanks! 
> 
> Scott Kniffin
> 
> mailto:Scott.D.Kniffin.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
> RSO, Unisys Corp. @ Lanham, MD
> CHO, Radiation Effects Facility, GSFC, NASA, Greenbelt, MD
> 
> The opinions expressed here are my own.  They do not necessarily represent
> the views of Unisys Corporation or NASA.  This information has not been
> reviewed by my employer or supervisor.  
>