ML20003J231
| ML20003J231 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 04/23/1981 |
| From: | Felton J NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM) |
| To: | Criswell H MEDICAL DEVICES REPORT |
| References | |
| FOIA-81-130 NUDOCS 8105110081 | |
| Download: ML20003J231 (1) | |
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Medical Devices Report P. O. Box 2129 IN RESPONSE REFER Springfield, VA 22152 TO F01A-81-130
Dear Mr. Criswell:
This is in further response to your letter dated March 31, 1981, in which you requested, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, the l'.st of 2,600 medical facilities holding NRC materials licenses as well as a list of medical facilities licensed by the 26 Agreement States.
Please find enclosed the list of medical facilities holding NRC materials licenses which you requested.
In your letter you agreed to pay the charge for the enclosed document which is $12.00.
Please send a check-in the amount of $12.00 payable to the "U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission" along with a copy of this letter, to the Director, Division of Rules and Records, MNBB-42. N U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555.
This completes action on your request.
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This is a Freedom of Informs t. ion request for the list of 2,600 medical facilities holding 11RC naterials licenses.
You will note that the enclosed story says there are about 1,600 medical facilities licensed by the 26 agreement states. I should appreciate this list also if it is available. I assume these lists have complete n+4*m= addresses, including zip Codes.
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Maryland arbitration panel awards $2 mil. in radiology malpractice case.... Dental radiology subject of Bureau of Rad Health /NCHCT report.... Congressional Task Force on industrial innovation to emphasize productivity....Index advances 1.4%.
00 FACILITIES HOLD NRC MEDICAL MATERIALS LICENSES; Some form of non-compliance is found in PLIANCE INSPECTIONS RANGE FROM 2 TO 3 YEARS more than 40% of all materials inspections conducted by the Nuclear Regulatory Comm-ion (NRC), although the number of cases involving cevere infractions is less than 10%, accord-
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the medical field, the most severe penalty imposed by NRC last year was temporary suspension of license, Thornberg ' told WRR. Many of the violations are administrative in nature and are easi-corrected, he said. He noted that a lot of administrative violations may be indicative of other e serious probices.
the years 1979 and 1980, NRC conducted 1,680 inspections of facilities using radioactive mater-s for medical purposes. More than 7,500 materials inspections for all categories of use were ducted.
N6tal number of facilities holding NRC materials licenses is about 8,500.
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, tl e last 6 or 7 years, the total NRC materials licenses has remained about the same, Thornberg
,d. The number of medical facilities applying forlicenses rose rapidly in that period but has
,eled off. Thornberg postulated that most of the facilities interested in using radioactive crials for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes already are licensed.
f I'argest producers of medical radioactive materials licensed by NRC are E.R. Squibb & Son, Inc.,
ott Laboratories, and Mallinckrodt, Inc., according to Thornberg.
tually all NRC licensed medical facilities use t echnetium-99m, Thornberg said. It is widely d in diagnostic procedures because of its short half-life and the low dose required. A few of largest hospitals own technetium generators, in which technetium is obtained from molybdenum a milking-off process. Iodine-131 is the second most frequently used r.adioisotope for medical poses.
quency of NRC inspection is deteruined by the category / priority assigned at the time of licen-
- , Thornberg explained. There are 24 materials categories, 4 of them celated to medical uses.
- medical users are routinely inspected every 2 or 3 years.
Intervals between inspections for 111 tics with limited licenses permitting use of only small amount of radionuclides are much
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