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Re: X-Ray Technology to Irradiate Blood and Blood Products
There are more than 1000 units in the world exlusively being used for blood
irradiation. They are dedicated systems. We have one. We irradiate over 40
bags every days before transfusing them to patients of leukemia and bone
marrow transplantation. It helps to prevent graft versus host disease.
M.M. Rehani
mmrehani@vsnl.com
At 05:08 PM 3/15/99 -0600, you wrote:
>I expect that this will raise all kinds of red flags, as did food
>irradiation. If the public is terrified of putting food in their mouths,
>that had bee "IRRADIATED" ... wait to they find that the blood that
>will be transfused into their bodies, will be "IRRADIATED"!
>
>Monday March 15, 3:40 pm Eastern Time
>
>Company Press Release
>
>Florida Based Company Announces New Applications for X-Ray
>Technology to Irradiate Blood and Blood Products
>
>CORAL SPRINGS, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 1999--Rad
>Source Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB:IRAD - news) of Coral Springs,
>Fla. has made a technological breakthrough in the design of a
>proprietary system that irradiates blood and blood products prior to
>transfusion in order to prevent graft versus host disease.
>
>The RS 3000 Blood Irradiator is a completely self contained X-ray
>irradiation source that provides an alternative to radioactive
>(gamma) irradiation sources. The RS 3000 Blood Irradiator has
>been approved for marketing by the Food and Drug Administration
>(FDA) for the irradiation of blood and blood products. The response
>to the RS 3000 Blood Irradiator has been tremendous with initial
>orders placed for eight units stated Randol Kirk, President and
>CEO. The first unit is scheduled to be delivered within the first
>quarter of 1999 to the South Florida Blood Bank, West Palm
>Beach, Florida. I believe, the RS 3000 Blood Irradiator will
>revolutionize the industry as the first blood irradiator utilizing a non-
>radioactive source, we are eagerly awaiting it's arrival. stated John
>Flynn, President and CEO of the South Florida Blood Banks.
>
>Rad Source Technologies, Inc. is committed to replacing regulated,
>nuclear irradiation devices with X-ray technology for application in
>selected medical and industrial markets. Since its inception, Rad
>Source Technologies has developed, unique, patented technology
>to be sequentially incorporated into three specific product lines, all
>immediately applicable to resolving highly publicized, public health
>and consumer issues, according to Randol E. Kirk, President and
>CEO. Unlike commonly used medical and dental X-ray imaging
>equipment, which must be designed to minimize and focus
>radiation dosage, the new products are designed to provide intense
>long wave X-ray bombardment on demand, but without the inherent
>risks associated with radioactive radiation. ``Our technology has
>greatly reduced the risk and problems associated with
>radioactivity,'' Kirk explained.
>
>Rad Source Technologies recently completed an equity private
>placement through its investment bankers, Capital International
>Securities Group of Miami, Florida. The equity private placement
>was raised in order to meet anticipated product demand of the
>company's RS 2000 Lab Irradiators and RS 3000 Blood Irradiators.
>The company began trading it's common stock in the public
>markets on 3/13/99 on the OTC BB under the symbol IRAD. Rad
>Source Technologies, Inc. joins MDS Nordion TSE: (MHG.A),
>Sterigenics International Nasdaq: (STER) and Steris Corporation
>NYSE: (STE) in the emerging irradiation industry. For more
>information, visit the Company's web site at radsource.com.
>
>Sandy Perle
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>
>"The object of opening the mind, as of opening
>the mouth, is to close it again on something solid"
> - G. K. Chesterton -
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