IEER | Campaign to Include Women, Children, and Future Generations in Environmental Health Standards

IEER | Campaign to Include Women, Children, and Future Generations in Environmental Health Standards: "Dear President Bush:

We are writing to call your attention to a serious problem in public health protection and ask that you take action to fix it.

Presently, many federal radiation protection standards are based on average lifetime exposure or on 'Reference Man,' a hypothetical adult 'Caucasian' male who is 20 to 30 years old, weighs 154 pounds, is five feet seven inches tall, and is 'Western European or North American in habitat and custom.' Reference Man is widely used to set federal rules and regulations, for instance, limits on how much residual radiation will be allowed in radioactively contaminated soil."