Re: [Leica] mail irradiation affects film

["Ted Grant" <tedgrant@home.com>]

On the Canadian CBC TV news last evening they had a story about this very
matter of irradiating mail to kill bacteria. And there was an absolute
warning that the dose if used at the level required will also destroy video
and film!

And they were quite emphatic about it! So now those of you who mail your
film had better find a new way to do so!
ted


Ted Grant Photography Limited
www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
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From: "r g" <photos@nyc.rr.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 3:46 PM
Subject: [Leica] mail irradiation affects film


> There is all this talk about irradiating mail to kill bacteria.  I don't
> think they are going to ask our permission before they do this, it will
just
> happen. Which has me wondering about all of us who send back our film to
the
> manufacturers for processing, and those that buy film mail order? Have the
> photo companies come up with anything public on this issue? Irradiation
even
> at low levels affects film. The amount of irradiation to kill Salmonella,
> for example, is 7 million times more radiation than in a single chest
x-ray.
> (source:CDC). Makers of the machines admit that it will expose film
> ("There's no doubt it would expose film", Williams Corp).
>
> I'd hate to get back a box of white slides. Anyone else is concerned about
> this?
>
>
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