‘No immediate threat’ of low-level radiation from Bed, Bath and Beyond

[Silent_Bob]

http://beaconnews.suntimes.com/news/9990656-418/no-immediate-threat-of-low-level-radiation-from-bed-bath-and-beyond-tissue-box-holders.html


The Illinois Emergency Management Agency says there is "no immediate threat" posed by decorative tissue box holders sold by Bed, Bath and Beyond that are contaminated with low-levels of radioactive material.

IEMA said Friday it is coordinating with federal officials and Bed, Bath and Beyond to identify and secure the tissue box holders contaminated with cobalt-60. While they present no immediate health risk, according to a release from IEMA, the agency is working with federal officials to prevent unnecessary radiation exposure by anyone who comes in contact with them.

The contaminated items are in the Dual Ridge Boutique product line, model number DR9M. They were manufactured at a facility in India and shipped to a Bed, Bath and Beyond distribution site in New Jersey. The items were shipped to the company's stores in 20 states, including at least two stores in the Chicago area — 1800 N. Clybourn in Chicago and 3232 Lake Ave. in Wilmette.

On Wednesday, staff from IEMA's Bureau of Radiation Safety visited both locations where store officials had already removed and secured the entire product line from store shelves, the release said.

At the Chicago store, four tissue box holders were found to have elevated radiation levels. At the Wilmette location, three tissue box holders with elevated radiation levels were identified. Several other bath accessory items within the same product line, which had also been removed from store shelves, showed no signs of radioactive contamination.

At both stores, the contaminated items were segregated and secured to prevent further exposure to employees or customers.

As a reference of the relative risk of these items, a person who spends 10 hours within one foot of the holder would receive a dose equivalent to a single chest x-ray, the release said.

On Friday, IEMA is sending staff to seven additional Bed, Bath and Beyond stores in the Chicago area that received items in the product line since September. At this time, it doesn't appear any of the affected items were shipped to stores in other areas of the state.

"These holders do not pose an immediate health risk, but we always want to prevent unnecessary exposure to radiation," IEMA Director Jon Monken said.

Customers who believe they may have purchased a tissue box holder from the Dual Ridge Boutique product line should contact Bed, Bath and Beyond at (800) 462-3966.

[lildog]

Maybe I'm missing it but how the heck did a tissue box become radioactive in the first place?

[Jim Johnson]

Maybe I'm missing it but how the heck did a tissue box become radioactive in the first place?

Contaminated recycled materials that are added to metal during production.
There are many industrial as well as governmental sources of irradiated scrap.  It is sold internationally, to hide it's origins and therefore it's contamination.

[jerryswife]

(NaturalNews) The Dual Ridge Metal Boutique tissue boxes sold at Bed, Bath & Beyond stores have been discovered to be radioactive. Made with the extremely dangerous material used to blast cancer tumors with radiation -- cobalt-60 -- they emit gamma rays that are known to cause both cancer and infertility. They were manufactured in India, shipped on a commercial container to New Jersey, and then distributed to Bed, Bath & Beyond stores in 20 states.

How much radiation do these tissue holders emit, exactly? Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman David McIntyre said, on the record, that standing near one of these tissue holders for 30 minutes a day would expose you to the equivalent of "a couple of chest X-Rays" each year. The Illinois Emergency Management Agency went even further, issuing a release stating that every 10 hours spent near the product would expose you to the equivalent of one chest X-Ray (http://beaconnews.suntimes.com/news/9990656-418/no-immediate-threat-of-lo...).

In case you were wondering, a chest X-Ray is not a small dose of radiation.

Ever since Fukushima, the corporate-run media has downplayed the risks of radiation exposure, and now they're claiming that these radioactive products are "no big deal" because they "only" expose you to the equivalent of multiple chest X-Rays each year.

What if a customer has this on their nightstand, near their head, and they're sleeping next to it for 8 hours a night? That means they'd be getting nearly the equivalent radiation of a chest X-Ray each night for 365 nights a year!

How is this not an immediate threat to public health? The corporate-run media has once again dropped the ball on this, downplaying the severity of this discovery by orders of magnitude. "Federal authorities say the tissue holder contains trace amounts of radioactive cobalt but it is not dangerous," reported the Daily Mail

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/034659_Bed_Bath_&_Beyond_radioactive_products.html#ixzz1jg30U8LQ

[Free libertarian]

Somehow I think there is a carton character in this.  Weren't the Ninja Turtles, and the Fantastic Four all recipients of their super powers from radiation of some type?  I can see it know BOOGER MAN and his sidekick Sniffles.   

[Pat K]

Great now every body is gonna have a nose the size of Jimmy Durantes.