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[waider]

The Department of Health has said it is prepared to consider recalling the iodine tablets issued to 2.1 million homes in 2002, after a conference was told they would be useless in the event of a nuclear incident at Sellafield, and could even pose a health risk to some people.

That would be these tablets. "Yay" for our well-informed health department and their meaningless gestures.

Comments

[pobig.livejournal.com]

Huh, interesting to know that iodine tablets wouldn't confer any useful protection against radioactive iodine contamination. I guess that's a hold-over from the '50s?

[waider.livejournal.com]

Actually, no, the problem is apparently that the iodine tablets only address a particular form of radioactive waste - some iodine derivative, I guess - and Sellafield hasn't handled that particular badness in quite a few years. Why it took two years for this to come to light I don't know.