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Collins, Colleagues Want Study On Health Effects Of X-Ray Body Imagers

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

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Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and several of her Democratic and Republican colleagues on a panel that oversees the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) yesterday introduced a bill requiring the department to launch an independent study of the health effects on people who use backscatter X-ray body imagers at airport security checkpoints in the United States. The legislation is aimed specifically at Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) machines made by OSI Systems [OSIS], which rely on ionizing radiation to obtain an image…

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