OCT 1 8 1971

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION
ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND 20852

 

October 13, 1971

Professor Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
School of Medicine

Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305

Dear Dr, Lederberg:

You are probably aware of the current review o entific basis
for radioactive standards sponsored by the Federal Radiation Cg
(presently the Criteria and Standards Division, Envi?ens al Protection
Agency) and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, This review
includes the combined efforts of a National Academy of Sciences Advisory
Committee, a Special Studies Group under the auspices of EPA and NCRP.

 
 

     

As DHEW representative on the Special Studies Group and Co-Project
Officer (together with Dr. Paul C. Tompkins) of the NAS contract, I have
a particular interest in the magnitude of the radiation dose from medical
radiography. In this regard I am attempting to gather information on the
"cost-benefit" relationship relative to medical radiation. I am familiar
with your cost-analysis of genetic disease from radiation and your opinion
concerning the importance of the medical radiation dose. I will be on the
West Coast in early November and, if it is agreeable with you, I would like ~
to get your opinion on the cost-benefit relationship as it relates to .
medical diagnostic radiation, My present schedule is such that I will be =
in the Palo Alto area on November 9, 1971.

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Sincerely, _

Bernard Shleien
DHEW Representative
Special Studies Group

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