OREANDA-NEWS. July 01, 2013. There have been inluded changes to the Technical Regulation of sealed sources of ionizing radiation which are applied for completing equipment with components used in medicine, in particular in X-ray therapy, industry, scientific and research activity. A respective draft resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine was endorsed.

Use of this Regulation is rather restricted – as there are no producers of sources of ionizing radiation in Ukraine. However, the changes give guarantees to the users that capsules with sources of ionizing radiation are hermetically-sealed and safe.

First of all, the changes were necessary for brining to compliance of the Technical Regulation of sealed sources of ionizing radiation with legislative acts approved after 2007, and secondly, for implementation of international requirements and guidelines of the EU.