ML19290D576
| ML19290D576 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | 07002876 |
| Issue date: | 12/04/1979 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
| To: | |
| Shared Package | |
| ML19290D562 | List: |
| References | |
| 30-02623-79-01, 30-11781-79-01, 30-11781-79-1, 30-2623-79-1, 70-2876-79-01, NUDOCS 8002220214 | |
| Download: ML19290D576 (2) | |
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APPENDIX A NOTICE OF VIOLATION Veterans Administration Hospital Docket No. 30-02623 Brooklyn, New York License No. 31-02892-03 Based on the results of an NRC inspection conducted on November 6,1979, it appears that certain of your activities were not conducted in full compliance with NRC regulations and the conditions of your license as indicated below:
A.
10 CFR 30.34(c) requires that you limit the possession and use of byproduct material to the purposes authorized in your license.
Condition 9 of your license limits the use of byproduct material for diagnostic procedures to those listed in 10 CFR 35.100, Groups I, II, and III.
Contrary to this requirement, on August 27, 1979, one patient and on September 12, 1979, two patients were injected with thyroxine (T-4) labeled with 25 microcuries of iodine-125, a diagnostic procedure not listed in 10 CFR 35.100.
This is an infraction.
B.
Condition 12 of you license limits the use, or supervision of use, of licensed material to certain named physicians.
Contrary to this requirement, as of November 16, 1979, five persons not authorized by your license used licensed materials for in vitro studies; and on August 27, 1979 and September 12, 1979, a physician not authorized by your license used licensed material in your Nuclear Medicine Department.
This is an infraction.
C.
@ndition 16 of your license requires that licensed material be possessed and used in accordance with statements, representations, and procedures contained in your application dated June 26, 1978.
1.
Paragraph 4 of item 15 of this application requires that patient doses containing radioactive material be prepared and administered using lead syringe shields.
Contrary to this requirement, on the day of the inspection, November 6,1979, personnel preparing radiopharmaceuticals failed to use syringe shields in the preparation of radiophannaceutical kits.
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2.
Paragraph 8 of item 15 of this application requires that personnel wear finger and wrist film badges during elution of generator and preparation, assay, and injection of radiopharmaceuticals.
Contrary to this requirement, on November 6, 1979, one person working in your nuclear medicine department did not wear the required dosimeters during any of these procedures.
3.
Item 24 of this application requires that film badges be exchanged weekly.
Contrary to this requirement, as of November 6,1979, film badges at your facility had not been exchanged since September 17, 1979, a period of more than two weeks.
These are infractions.
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