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ICRU Report 19. Radiation Quantities and Units
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Nuclear PhysicsRadiation PhysicsMedical GeochemistryRadiation ProtectionRadiation TestingEnvironmental HealthToxicologyHealth SciencesRadiation MonitoringIonizing RadiationChemical HazardPoisoningRadiation SafetyWelcomed.this Excellent BulletinEcotoxicologyIcru Report 19PharmacologyDosimetryForensic ToxicologyRadiation DoseAcute PoisoningEnvironmental ToxicologyOld Mine WorkingsMedicine
chelating agents and their stressing the contraindication of dimercaprol (BAL) in acute poisoning are welcomed.This excellent bulletin includes an account of the strange environmental Japanese 'itai-itai' disease.These are cases of bone and joint pain occurring in a proportion of elderly women living in the vicinity of old mine workings where cadmium, lead, and zinc have been mined.Rightly or wrongly, this disease has been ascribed to exposure to cadmium.This publication would be very useful to any industrial medical officer or industrial hygienist concerned with the protection of persons exposed to cadmium or its compounds in their work.