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Tue 08 Aug 2008Experts play down kitchen radiation report
A REPORT in the New York Timeslast week suggesting that granite countertops in people's kitchens represent a radon hazard has been played down by the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII).
The report, What's Lurking in Your Countertop?, said that the US environmental protection agency had been receiving more calls in recent months from radon inspectors about granite countertops with high levels of the cancer-causing radiation.
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