<html>
<head>
<style><!--
.hmmessage P
{
margin:0px;
padding:0px
}
body.hmmessage
{
font-size: 10pt;
font-family:Tahoma
}
--></style>
</head>
<body class='hmmessage'>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyTextIndent><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">Gennaro, Reuben, Lawrence & Tedd: </SPAN>China has lots of Nuclear waste, so it's not unreasonable to ask how much radioactive Lead-210 was found in the bag replaced by Wegmans that "was found to have more than 700 parts per million" because Lead has 4 stable and 86 radioactive isotopes. Lead-210 is one of the most deadly because it has a half life of 22.3 years and has been found in LI drinking water supplied by the SCWA, according to public well analyses linked to footnotes @ www.gfxtechnology.com/TOXFAQ.html.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyTextIndent><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The EPA's drinking water MCL (Maximum Contaminant Level) for total Lead is 15 micrograms per liter of water, or ppb (parts per billion) -- 6,000 times less than the federal standard of 90 parts per million (ppm) for paint; 20,000 times less than the 300 ppm limit for toys. </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyTextIndent><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The EPA's MCL for radioactive Lead-210 is about a billion times lower than that for non-radioactive Lead; 1.2 picocuries per liter. Contamination levels this small can only be detected by radioactivity measurements (usually given in Curies per liter) then dividing by Lead-210's specific activity of 88 Curies per gram. </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyTextIndent><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Was this done for Wegmans' bags?</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
<FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If the Lead contained in these bags were dissolved in a liter of drinking water, just to meet the EPA MCL it would have to be diluted with about 46,000 liters of water (700,000/15); adjusted for the weight of each bag. (<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Irate’s Comment @ <A href="http://www.newsday.com/long-island/7.1599062?view=article#commentsForm-1599062">http://www.newsday.com/long-island/7.1599062?view=article#commentsForm-1599062</A> )</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><BR>
<BR>
Carmine<BR>
<A href="http://www.gfxtechnology.com">www.gfxtechnology.com</A> <BR> </body>
</html>