Published: January 13th, 2012 at 2:38 pm ET
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Radioactive tissue-box cases taken off Bed, Bath & Beyond shelves: Westchester customers startled, Journal News, Jan. 13, 2012:
Eight radioactive metal tissue-box holders have been removed from the shelves at two Bed, Bath & Beyond locations in Westchester County, leaving customers startled and questioning the company’s safeguards. [...]
The product, a Dual Ridge Boutique model tissue-box holder, model number DR9M, had also been available on the company’s website, officials said. [...]
Dr. Sherlita Amler, the county’s health commissioner
- “Nuclear regulatory authorities have assured us these tissue-box covers pose no immediate threat to anyone’s health”
- “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission also told us that the material is believed to be in the tissue cover itself and cannot be inhaled, nor can it contaminate other objects (such as tissues).”
Dr. Nirav R. Shah, the state’s health commissioner
- The level of radiation exposure from holding a contaminated tissue-box holder against the body for an hour is equivalent to a chest X-ray
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Told county health officials that scrap metal containing Cobalt-60 could have been inadvertently added to the product during the smelting process
Douglas Haviland outside the Elmsford store where some of the boxes were seized
- “My only reaction was how could it have happened”
- “It just makes me wonder if it happened with the tissue boxes what else is taking place, not only in Westchester County but all over the world”
Customer Christina D’Onofrio outside the Elmsford store
- “I certainly think a company this large would have standards they go by to make sure they know where their products are coming from and that they are safe”
- “They should do their homework before they put it out”
Kassandra Gerring at the store to buy dishes
- “You hear about all of the recalls form China, Taiwan and other places”
- “It’s kind of surprising in a way that Bed, Bath & Beyond wouldn’t be a little more diligent in checking the source of its products”
Published: January 13th, 2012 at 2:38 pm ET
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Sorry, going BACK to the Artwork from the Louvre:
(Google Translate)
“RADIATION”
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kunst-fuer-fukushima-ausstrahlung-11605223.html
In the spring of France organized a traveling exhibition in Fukushima and the region: “Encounter, love, friendship, solidarity in the collections of the Louvre”
It is dangerous and pointless: The subject had “The Three Graces with Cupid” to do hardly anything. At two locations there could be a radiation, and nobody knows how contaminated images could be renovated. Sievert Sievert credited to the director of the Louvre in front since then, there was a risk that neither outside nor in the exhibition halls, an infestation.
Wanted to know as radio broadcasting, whether or not the policy or the NUCLEAR LOBBY is behind the new project, he received no information from the Louvre.
+++++++
This has the Nuclear Industry’s fingerprints all over it.
It’s Money, Money, Money By The Pound!!
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To the dearly departed.
Gov. loves you as you chase your tail…
the one they stuck upon you ass.
What a bunch of sheep you really are.
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Willy Loman…are you out there.
Radiation is bad for business
Nuclear power sullies the good name of capitism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4nVhzZAatw&feature=related
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“The Nuclear Regulatory Commission also told us that the material is believed to be in the tissue cover itself and cannot be inhaled, nor can it contaminate other objects (such as tissues).”
Does anyone else find it odd that the radiation cannot contaminate other objects (according to the NRC)?
If it is harmless (hah!) then why the recalls?
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“The level of radiation exposure from holding a contaminated tissue-box holder against the body for an hour is equivalent to a chest X-ray ”
WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN!!?? who might just play with a packet of soft tissue? where are these x rays directed?? what about the lorry driver who had thousands of them feet from his body? what about the manufacturers workers who dealt with the material? how many xRAYS AND TO WHAT PART OF THE BODY WERE THESE “X RAYS ” DIRECTED?? xrays huh?? how many bananas is that?? why dont they use the flight stewardess comparison ?? eh?? problems with that one?? especially if there is ionising particles and gases in the upper atmosphere?? loads of questions!
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This is allegedly the company that imported the tissue boxes. Hardly the evil corporate monster one might have been expecting:
http://www.manta.com/c/mr4bk9w/tatara-group
Everyone will be looking for scapegoats though. I see one customer is quoted saying “I certainly think a company this large would have standards they go by to make sure they know where their products are coming from and that they are safe” – it probably hasn’t yet crossed her mind that she pays her government big bucks to screen goods at ports of entry, and I imagine it would not occur to her that she would be wise to do her own due diligence. Relying on governments and industry leads to… where we are now.
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OT
Don’t forget. Bill Moyers returns tonight I think it is.
Moyers’s new television show, “Moyers and Company,” premiers on local public television stations this weekend. The one-hour, weekly interview program tackles the key issues Americans face today.
Know what I’m thinking…
Tweeting commenting on his blog just might bring his FOCUS in on Japan, if it isn’t already.
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Huge difference between what the NRC guy said (in the other story posted) and what the State Health commissioner said here, as I perceive it. I think the NRC guy was taking advantage of an inverse square relationship – exploiting the notion that the dose would fall off rapidly with distance, while the Health guy was dealing with the reality that people might actually get physically close to a tissue box.
Both were trying to reassure, but their credibility on this kind of thing is pretty shaky these days.
The NRC guy: “Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman David McIntyre said the home products company had pulled the tissue holder from its stores.
He said there is little to no risk to human health — but it’s better to avoid unnecessary exposure to radiation.
“If someone has one of these, they could receive a small radiation dose from it,” he said. For example, he said someone keeping one of the boxes on a vanity in the bathroom and spending about 30 minutes a day near it for a year would receive the equivalent of a couple of chest x-rays.”
and the Health Commissioner said:
“The level of radiation exposure from holding a contaminated tissue-box holder against the body for an hour is equivalent to a chest X-ray”.
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I suppose a lot of people would put this item on their bedside table, fairly close to their head as they sleep. How many head x-rays would that add up to over time?
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Correct me if i’m wrong
San Francisco bay area milk was roughly 2000% over the enforced epa limit for consumption.
Mc Donalds as well as many other restaurants sell these products in children’s meals.
Does the surgeon general need to step in and place warning labels on milk ?
& Are Mc Donalds, as well as any other restaurant chains; Held Legally responsible to conduct adequate testing for radionuclides?
Wouldn’t these incidents be suite worthy?
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I think they should be responsible. If the market wasn’t flooded with lies and misdirections, there might be a real debate in this country about how to protect ourselves. If a company is responsible, they would test their own products for radiation. Hell, all you need are a couple of those large plastic scintillators to test the produce as it is unloaded from the truck into the store.
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I agree that warnings should have been issued, especially for pregnant women & infants. And with recent concerns over contaminants in infant formula it should be tested more thoroughly. The facts are that there the tests & readings have been taken, but not shared with the public.
We have not heard of mass layoffs from agency’s that do radioactive measurements or other testing. The taxpayers around the world pay for not only the technology but the wages paid to those who do the testing. So the tests are being done & the results passed to family & friends & other government agencies yet we are being left in the dark. And as long as we are kept that way, none of the cancers etc can be traced back to their source.
And now we can be assured of more exposure to radioactive metals as Canadians Loonies & Toonies are to be made with steel. This after reading a link posted by someone at Enenews about the increased usage of radioactive steel throughout the industry. So to follow the money, from its creation to banks to cashiers & how many people are handling that money. I would expect then to see more of this steel to be added to money worldwide.
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/article/65784–hey-canada-can-you-spare-a-nickel-steel-yourself-for-new-loonies-toonies
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I know someone already mentioned this, but again, if the boxes pose no risk, why are they being recalled?
Question : and help me if I missed this in the article, but how were they detected?
Is anyone questioning a possible dry run to see if/where/how radioactive materials can be smuggled into the states?
Hatchoooooo!
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Hi bmurr.
I asked the same question in the first article. This is the answer I got from aigeezer (Thank you aigeezer for answering it)
The answer to your first question is in the story: “The contamination was first discovered in California when two packages bound for Bed, Bath & Beyond stores in Santa Clara and San Jose containing four tissue holders triggered radiation alarms at truck scales, according to a Jan. 6 report posted on the NRC website.”
I wrote back:
Thank you..If it was discovered at the truck scales, then why did they make it to the stores?
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Hi WindorSolarPlease. Sorry, I hadn’t spotted your reply earlier.
That’s a VERY astute question. It wasn’t addressed in the article.
Good catch!
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Thinking about this a bit more… I’d speculate that most shipments got to the stores unnoticed, but eventually one shipment set off an alarm at a truck checkpoint. If so, it’s evidence of how porous the system is (no surprise) but I imagine there are people who would say the system worked because the radioactive products were eventually detected.
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Thank you aigeezer,
I would say that you are right. I think we should get the Nuclear Companies to issue detectors to the public…(like that would ever happen)
I bet we would all be surprised on what we would find.
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I think a lot more people will be testing things in their homes. I can’t wait to see people testing things in the store before they buy something, might wake up a couple of people, if they see it for their own eyes.
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I’d personally love to see teams of people in tyvek suits and respirators, going about the stores testing for radionuclides. haha That would get the discussion moving quickly.
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Inspired Bones!
“Mall Security!
Geiger Testers!
They are resistors
to the profit that comes
from sourcing abuse.
How dare they test for
isotope Daughters and Sisters
Ready the pepperspray –
Give them all blisters!”
But proactive and passive
they give no excuse
for excessive reaction -
they even buy stuff! –
and then test in the street
where the cameras are waiting!
while corporate execs
watch from windows, hating
that fair and informed
consumer reaction
will, if they’re not careful
deliver a smackdown.
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Hi Bones
That might be our outside attire, if this keeps up.
That sure would cause attention.
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New job creation? I hate to think who would be hired.
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Don’t know if anyone remembers former Republican Vice President Dan Quayle’s proposition to allow dumping of low-level radioactive waste in local landfills and even to turn it into silverware? I remember clearly though now hard pressed to find any reference to it on Google.
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Hi Ron. I got quite a few useful hits using “dan quayle landfill” (I also enjoyed putting that string together – wishful thinking).
Among them was this tangential one. It mentioned Quayle in this context:
“In May 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle announced the FDA’s anti consumer right-to-know policy which stated that GMO foods need NOT be labeled nor safety-tested.”
At risk of going off-topic… the site reminded me of the colossal lobbying power of big industry:
http://bestmeal.info/monsanto/facts.shtml
… and I’m afraid the nuke industry is even more powerful, because of the military connections.
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First Alert has been doing it for years. While there is a warning on the back to return it when instead of landfilling it. Most people just throw old smoke detectors with their Am241 source into the trash. This is a major method of cheaply disposing of byproducts from other nuclear products
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