MedicalConspiracies- Radon 'ruled' OK to drink in 1976

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Subject:	[Health_and_Healing] Radon 'ruled' OK to drink in 1976
Date:	Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:05:28 -0700
From:	Bill Kingsbury b.b.bb@verizon.net [Health_and_Healing] <Health_and_Healing@yahoogroups.com>
Reply-To:	Health_and_Healing@yahoogroups.com

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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:37:52 -0400
From: Carmine Vasile <gfx-ch@msn.com>

Erin, Richard, Reuben & GBForum: I've started the petition

"Governors: Adopt Vermont's 5 pCi/L-water action level as a Maximum Contaminate Level (MCL) for Radon in drinking, bottled, tap, irrigation & industrial process water." and need your help to get it off the ground.

Will you take 30 seconds to sign it right now then forward this email to your Governor. http ://people.smu.edu/rhalperi/governors.html contains contact info and emails addresses for every Governor.

Here's the link:

http://www.change.org/petitions/governors-adopt-vermont-s-5-pci-l-water-action-level-as-a-maximum-contaminate-level-mcl-for-radon-in-drinking-bottled-tap-irrigation-industrial-process-water

Here's why it's important: ...

NATIONAL DISGRACE

  During the Ford Administration, for no good reason EPA officials specifically excluded Radon's Alpha particle activity from the Safe Drinking Water Act’s Radionuclides Rule of 1976. This made it unsafe to use water contaminated by nuclear waste, naturally occurring Radon gases and dozens of their carcinogenic decay products. Radon was also excluded from the 2000 Amendment of the Radionuclides Rule.

  Consequently, as shown in the Bar Chart, it took about 30 years for Radon to become a leading cause of death; about 21,000 deaths per year, compared to 17,400 for drunk drivers. This prompted the Surgeon General to issue this Radon Advisory in January of 2005: "Indoor radon is the second-leading cause of lung cancer in the United States and breathing it over prolonged periods can present a significant health risk to families all over the country. It's important to know that this threat is completely preventable. Radon can be detected with a simple test and fixed through well-established venting techniques."

  He gave no estimate of the number lung cancer deaths in smokers or ex-smokers that were caused by Radon even though he knew breathing air containing as little as 4 picocuries per liter (pCi/L-air) is equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day from the instant a baby takes its first breath. Radon-222 (Rn-222) is the longest-lived Radon isotope; 9 time heavier than air, with a Specific Activity of 160,000 picocuries per gram and a half-life of 3.8 days. This means 8 pCi/L of Rn-222 weighs 50 E-18 grams (50 trillionths of a microgram). Yet inhaling such a tiny amount all day long has the same lung-cancer risk as smoking about two packs a day. Unlike other states, NY doesn’t require Radon testing or remediation; even when homes are sold.

   The “well-established venting techniques” referred to by the Surgeon General have been established for both contaminated air and well water, yet State & Federal health officials continue to ignore EPA Radon Risk Charts in “A Citizen's Guide to Radon” @ www .epa.gov/radon/pubs/citguide.html and have failed to set a Radon-MCL since 1976. This is a National Disgrace that no State Governor or President since Nixon has addressed.

You can sign my petition by clicking here.

Thanks!

Dr. Carmine F. Vasile

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