
LS 6000 Scintillation System User’s Manual
PN 247971-F
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Radioactive Material Licensing
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Radioactive Material Licensing
The following excerpts from the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, 10CFR3 1.5 are applicable
to Beckman Coulter, Inc., liquid scintillation counters distributed in Non-Agreement States of
the United States. Substantially similar regulations are applicable in all other states as
regulations of the particular Agreement State. For further information, please contact the
appropriate State or Federal Regional Office at the address or telephone number listed at the
end of this excerpt.
NOTE The user is responsible for notification of appropriate authorities which require registration of
radiation sources in their jurisdiction.
NOTE Beckman Coulter Scintillation Systems are manufactured under California Radioactive Materials
License No. 044 1-30, and distributed under California Radioactive Materials License No. 131 3-3OGL.
US NRC RULES AND REGULATIONS TITLE 10,
CHAPTER 1, PART 31
§31.5 Certain Measuring, Gauging or Control-lung Devices.
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(a) A general license is hereby issued to commercial and industrial firms and research,
educational and medical institutions, individuals in the conduct of their business, and
Federal, State or local government agencies to acquire, receive, possess, use or transfer, in
accordance with the provisions of paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) of this section, by product
material contained in controlling thickness, density, level, interface location, radiation,
leakage, or qualitative or quantitative chemical composition, or for producing light or an
ionized atmosphere.
(b) The general license in paragraph (a) of this section applies only to by-product material
contained in devices which have been manufactured or initially transferred and labeled in
accordance with the specifications contained in a specific license issued pursuant to §32.51 of
this chapter or in accordance with the specifications contained in a specific license issued by
an Agreement State which authorizes distribution of the devices to persons generally licensed
by the Agreement State.
(c) Any person who acquires, receives, possesses, uses or transfers by-product material in a
device pursuant to the general license in paragraph (a) of this section:
(1) Shall assure that all labels affixed to the device at the time of receipt and bearing a
statement that removal of the label is prohibited are maintained thereon and shall comply
with all instructions and precautions provided by such labels;
* Persons possessing by-product material in devices under the general license in §3 1.5 before Jan. 15, 1975, may
continue to possess, use or transfer that material in accordance with the requirements of §31.5 in effect on Jan. 14,
1975.
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