ROANOKE TIMES 

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, February 7, 1991                   TAG: 9102070321
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

SCIENTISTS SAY RADON DANGER OVERESTIMATED

The Environmental Protection Agency sharply overestimated Americans' risk of getting lung cancer from exposure to radon gas in their homes, a committee of the National Academy of Sciences said Wednesday.

An EPA spokeswoman said that despite the report, the agency continued to regard radon exposure as one of the larger health hazards Americans face.

The committee said that EPA's risk estimate, based on a study of cancer rates among miners exposed to the radioactive gas while working underground, failed to take into account circumstances that tend to cause greater exposures to miners than to people in homes.

- Cox News Service 


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