Regulations for the administration and enforcement of the Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act of 1968

Technical Report · Fri Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1978

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6463039· OSTI ID:6463039

The Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act was signed by the President on October 18, 1968. The purpose of this Act was to protect the public from unnecessary exposure to radiation from electronic products. Radiation covered in the Act was called electronic product radiation and was defined to mean any ionizing or nonionizing electromagnetic or particulate radiation or any sonic, infrasonic, or ultrasonic wave which is emitted from an electronic product as the result of the operation of an electronic circuit in such product. The provisions of the Act give the Secretary, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, authority to establish and carry out an electronic product radiation control program which shall include performance standards for electronic products. The regulations contained herein have been promulgated under that authority. The Bureau of Radiological Health is responsible for the day-to-day operation in carrying out the Act's mandate for an electronic product radiation control program. A principal objective of the program is to protect the public health through setting and enforcing electronic product radiation emission performance standards. This compilation is revised periodically, and efforts are made to provide an accurate reproduction of the regulations. This publication contains those regulations published in the Federal Register through September 1978. To maintain current information on amendments or deletions to 21 CFR Subchapter J, and for the official regulations, the reader should consult the latest issuances of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21.

• Research Organization: Bureau of Radiological Health, Rockville, MD (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6463039
• Report Number(s): FDA-79-8035
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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