Federal Radiation Council

Concentratons of Sr in people living in New York City between 1953 and 1959 who were exposed to nuclear weapons fallout were reported by Kulp and Schulert (1962). They suggested that the distribution of observed values was well fit by a log-normal distribution that had a geometric standard deviation of about 1.7. The Federal Radiation Council (FRC, 1961), after review of the accumulated data on Sr in human bone, concluded that a log-normal distribution was the appropriate description of the distribution of this age-controlled, exposuretime controlled population. The main exposure to Sr from fallout was by way of ingestion. 

FRC (1961). Federal Radiation Council, Background Material for the Development of Radiation Protection Standards, FRC Report No. 2 (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington). 

ALI = Annual Limit of Intake DAC = Derived Air Concentration EPA = Environmental Protection Agency FRC = Federal Radiation Council... 

TRC. 1960. Federal Radiation Council. Radiation protection guidance for federal agencies. Federal Register 60 4402-4403. 

Federal Radiation Council, Background Material for the Development of... 

The general control of radioactivity in foods has been provided by other congressional directives that have been executed by an Executive Order (7) delegating to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) the primary responsibility for all public health matters relating to radiation. This department, together with the Federal Radiation Council, recommends the federal policy for routine and emergency situations involving radiation. This policy is recommended to the President, the federal... 

HEW and the Federal Radiation Council have been assisted by the technical recommendations of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements. The NCRP has been particularly involved in developing the concept and the values of the maximum permissible concentrations (MPC) of radionuclides in water, which values could be applied to foods (16). [The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements was created on July 14,1964, by Public Law 88-376. The council is the successor to the unincorporated association which was known as the National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurements and which for 35 years served as the focal point for developing radiation protection philosophy and standards in the United States. The current address of the NCRP is 4201 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Suite 402, Washington, D. C.]... 

Only the United States, through Reports issued by the Federal Radiation Council in the mid-1960s (44), has seen fit to widely promulgate any similar recommendations, and both these and the UK Medical Research Council reports (42) are quoted in ICRP Publication 9 (40). 

Federal Radiation Council, Background Material for the Development of Radiation Protection Standards, Rep. No. 5 (1964) Background Material for the Development of Radiation Protection Standards Protective Action Guides for strontium 89, strontium 90 and caesium 137, Rep. No. 7 (1965). Both from U.S. Govt. Printing Office, Washington, DC. 

As a safeguard to our health, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) and the Federal Radiation Council (FRC), are among the groups that periodically monitor the level of radioactivity in the food supply. The FRC has stipulated the lower levels of radioactive contamination of foods. Should the level exceed these limits, the Agency will recommend actions which should be taken. 

The Joint Committee heard testimony from witnesses whose scientific investigations and conclusions were similar to those of Harold Knapp. Charles W. Mays, a University of Utah nuclear physicist, estimated that Utah infants had received aimual doses of iodine 131 that exceeded Federal Radiation Council guidelines on several occasions between 1951 and 1962. He announced that since the population of Utah had "been exposed repeatedly in excess of present radiation protection guides," the state would take appropriate countermeasures in the future and "the AEC should not be surprised to receive bills for the cost of these measures." Eric Reiss, a professor of medicine at Washington University and spokesman for the Greater St. Louis Citizens Committee for Nuclear Information, criticized the AEC even more sharply. He contended that the agency had seriously underestimated fallout hazards firom its weapons tests and concluded that "in the period 1951-62, a number of local populations. . . scattered throughout the continental United States have been exposed to fallout so intense as to represent a medically unac-... 

President Eisenhower created the Federal Radiation Council to provide guidance to agencies on radiological health protection. 

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