Bed, Bath & Beyond - oops! Radioactive TP holders.

[tolstoy]

Don't worry. It's all fixed!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/13/us-recall-bedbathandbeyond-idUSTRE80C22020120113

[GLW]

This is a week old already,..

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2012/20120111en.html

Newspapers have better things to do than review event reports,...

(!!soduk ttam ytefas)

[Starkist]

Better recall bananas too -.-

[UncaBuffalo]

This is a week old already,..

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2012/20120111en.html

Newspapers have better things to do than review event reports,...

(!!soduk ttam ytefas)

Shipment contained four Model DR9M Dual Ridge Metal Boutique (Kleenex box holders). Contact reading 6.5 mr/hr, One foot 0.85 mr/hr with a Victoreen 450P ion chamber.

I need one!  That's WAY more fun than some silly old Fiesta Ware! 

[HydroDave63]

Shipment contained four Model DR9M Dual Ridge Metal Boutique (Kleenex box holders). Contact reading 6.5 mr/hr, One foot 0.85 mr/hr with a Victoreen 450P ion chamber.

I need one!  That's WAY more fun than some silly old Fiesta Ware! 

Too bad they fail to mention if there was smearable as well 

[matthew.b]

I can't find anything on the NRC website, but newspapers are saying it was Co-60.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/radioactive-tissue-box-holders-yanked-bed-bath-shelves-article-1.1005746

[GLW]

I can't find anything on the NRC website, but newspapers are saying it was Co-60.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/radioactive-tissue-box-holders-yanked-bed-bath-shelves-article-1.1005746

This is a week old already,..

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2012/20120111en.html

Newspapers have better things to do than review event reports,...

(!!soduk ttam ytefas)

AGREEMENT STATE REPORT INVOLVING DETECTION OF CONTAMINATED MATERIAL

The following information was received from the State of California via email:

"Two [2] packages set off radiation alarms at Truckee, CA truck scales. Both packages indicated Cobalt 60. One package read 5.7 mr/hr and the other indicated 6.1 mr/hr using a Victoreen 450 CHP. The packages were enroute to Bed Bath and Beyond in Santa Clara and San Jose.

"The shipment was authorized to proceed in a separate trailer to the Sacramento [the shippers] yard at 8200 Elder Creek Road where the shipment will be secured awaiting RHB inspector to determine the contents and disposition of the material. Surveys were requested of the CHP to document ALARA during this shipment.

"Shipment contained four Model DR9M Dual Ridge Metal Boutique (Kleenex box holders). Contact reading 6.5 mr/hr, One foot 0.85 mr/hr with a Victoreen 450P ion chamber."

The shipment originated in India with a port of entry at Newark, NJ and was shipped via common carrier to its final destination in California.

CA 5010 #: 010512

[thenukeman]

(FSME-12-011, January, Other, Contaminated Tissue Holder)
January 30, 2012
ALL AGREEMENT AND NON-AGREEMENT STATES STATE LIAISON OFFICERS
UPDATE AND NOTIFICATION REGARDING RADIOACTIVELY CONTAMINATED TISSUE HOLDERS (FSME-12-011)
Purpose: For your information, on January 27, 2012, the U.S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) published in the Federal Register a Safety Advisory Notice on the return of radioactively contaminated tissue holders purchased from Bed, Bath and Beyond.
Background: Earlier this month, Bed, Bath and Beyond was notified by regulatory agencies that a product that they have carried since July, 2011, in approximately 200 of their 1000 stores in the
U.S. and Canada, as well as their website, the Dual Ridge Metal boutique tissue holder, was contaminated with low levels of cobalt-60 (Co-60). Bed, Bath and Beyond has pulled the product off of their sales floor and removed it from their website.
Discussion: On January 25, 2012, a safety advisory notice was published in the Federal Register titled, "Return of radioactively contaminated tissue holders purchased from Bed Bath and Beyond." The summary of the safety advisory notice is as follows:
"PHMSA has been notified that Bed Bath and Beyond sold a number of tissue holders in the United States, identified as the Dual Ridge Metal tissue holder, model number DR9M, that emit low levels of radiation. PHMSA and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission believe that there is no immediate danger to the public; however, PHMSA is advising persons in possession of the contaminated tissue holders that they should arrange with Bed Bath and Beyond for their safe return. Any person in possession of this item should call Bed Bath and Beyond at 1-800-462-3966 to obtain information about the proper return procedures."
You may review the safety advisory notice at:
https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2012/01/27/2012-1714/safety-advisory-notice-return-ofradioactively-
contaminated-tissue-holders-purchased-from-bed-bath
2
Additionally, after notifying the Government of India nuclear regulator, the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), on January 12, 2012 of the Co-60 contaminated metal facial tissue cover boxes shipped from India and received in the U.S., the AERB dispatched two officials/inspectors to investigate at the shipper's plant in Moradabad, India. Through inspection and systematic review of records, AERB tracked the metal sheets used in the contaminated boxes back from the fabricator, to its supplier, a material trader, then to an intermediate metal sheet roller, and then to a specific metal foundry, all in India. AERB is in the process of further investigation of suppliers of scrap metal to the foundry to determine the source of the contamination. AERB stated that it will initiate appropriate corrective action in this regard, and keep the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission informed of their investigation.
If you have any questions regarding this correspondence, please contact me at 301-415-7278 or
the individual named below.
POINT OF CONTACT: Duncan White
INTERNET: Duncan.White@nrc.gov
TELEPHONE:
301-415-2598
FAX:
301-415-3502
/RA/
Brian J. McDermott, Director Division of Materials Safety and State Agreements

[SloGlo]

aye wonder watt they're paying to decon that foundry?

[HydroDave63]

aye wonder watt they're paying to decon that foundry?

Rupees, many many rupees!

[SloGlo]

watt's that in u.s. currency.... a buck fitty?