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Radioactive Fallout

U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION
CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH,
OFFICE OF HEALTH PHYSICS

Rockville, Maryland

The Public Health Service National Center for Radiological Health originally began operation in 1953 when its health physicists monitored offsite fallout from U.S. nuclear tests. When the Environmental Protection Agency took over radiation monitoring responsibilities in 1970, the center's employees were divided between the Public Health Service and the Environmental Protection Agency. The Public Health Service placed its health physicists in a new unit, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration.

Health physicists in the Food and Drug Administration center continued to maintain files on fallout and collected unpublished and published materials on that subject from other government agencies and contractors. The collection amounts to approximately 3 cubic feet of unclassified materials on fallout from U.S. nuclear testing.

The papers in the collection originated from the following: Defense Nuclear Agency, the University of California at Los Angeles (Kermit Larson), the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Western Environmental Research Laboratory, the Environmental Protection Agency, the United Kingdom, Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, Public Health Service, and U.S. Weather Bureau. All of the material is unclassified and is located in Room 330 of the Chapman Building, 1901 Chapman Avenue, Rockville, Maryland, which is different from its mailing address, listed below.

DESCRIPTION

TOTAL SIZE (FEET)

POTENTIALLY RELEVANT (FEET)

HIGHEST CLASSIFICATION

VALUE

Various published and unpublished studies 3+ 3 Unclassified Useful

CONTACT

Dr. Marvin Rosenstein, Director
Office of Health Physics (HFZ-60)
Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Food and Drug Administration
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857

(301) 443-2850

or
Bruce Burnett
(301) 443-2850

HAI COLLECTION EFFORT
(volume in cubic feet)

DESCRIPTION

SCREENED

SELECTED

IN PROCESS

SENT TO CIC

Various studies 3 0.8 0 0.8

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