Isotope Supplier Responds To What It Calls 'untrue Allegations' In CMAJ Article

The report in the medical journal on Monday said MDS Nordion wouldn't co-operate with Europe's two-large-scale isotope suppliers - Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group in the Netherlands and the Institut National des Radioelements in Belgium. However, a response posted Wednesday on the CMAJ website by MDS Nordion spokeswoman Tamra Benjamin said the company immediately began to co-ordinate a backup supply of isotopes. "Given that the extended shutdown of AECL's NRU reactor was a precipitous event, any type of advanced international schedule collaboration would not have mitigated this unplanned event," Benjamin wrote. ... http://chealth.canoe.ca/channel_health_news_details.asp?news_id=24295

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