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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> 0 Page 2 August 3, 1998 <br /> <br /> agency. Safety issues in use of radioactive materials are not inherently different among medical <br /> applications, industrial applications, consumer product applications, research application and <br /> food/agriculture applications. If anything medical applications present more complex issues because <br /> not only are there safety concems about the users and the general public, but there are also safety <br /> issues pertaining to the patient. The physical properties of Cobalt 60 do not change according to its <br /> application. If its use in a food irradiator is unsafe, then its use in a human irradiator should also be <br /> unsafe. However experience here and elsewhere show that Cobalt 60 irradiators can be constructed, <br /> maintained, and operated safely. <br /> I am confident that a Cobalt 60 irradiation facility can be located, designed and constructed, and <br /> operated as safely and as effectively here as on the mainland. We have already done it well enough <br /> that we made no news. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ;If-L-Imbeth, you. MD <br />