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ENS 5167522 January 2016 06:00:00Agreement StateAgreement State Report - Package with External ContaminationThe following information was received from the State of Oklahoma via email: (The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (OKDEQ)) has been informed that a package sent from University of Oklahoma Medical Center (OK-21035-01) to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center pharmacy (OK-03176-04MD) was found to have approximately 2.1 X 10^6 DPM of removable contamination when it was received by the pharmacy. The package was empty and the contamination appeared to be confined to an area about 3 cm in diameter on a plastic sleeve which enclosed the shipping label. The nuclide has been identified as Tc-99m. OKDEQ will perform a reactive inspection next week.