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Health and Safety Information

Is the Secure 1000 Safe?
Yes. The Secure 1000 complies with all applicable regulations and standards that exist in the United States. These regulations include OSHA regulations, Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations and Food and Drug Administration regulations. With a single scan exposure of 0.05 microsieverts (0.05 uSv) per inspection, the Secure 1000 systems are 1/5 the allowable dose under ANSI Standard 43.17 which states the per inspection dose cannot be more than 0.25 microsieverts (0.25 uSv). Several independent 3rd party scientific organizations, such as the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, have evaluated and confirmed that the Secure 1000 systems have met all applicable regulations and standards. The Secure 1000 also complies with other applicable international standards, such as the United Kingdom’s Health Protection Agency.

How much X-ray Radiation Exposure is Generated by the Secure 1000?
The amount of x-ray energy generated by the Secure 1000 is very small, in fact much less than naturally occurring background radiation people are exposed to. For example:

• A person would have to be inspected 1,000 times by the Secure 1000 to receive the equivalent of one typical medical chest x-ray.
• In one day on Earth, a person is exposed to 60 times more radiation than in one inspection by the Secure 1000.
• In two minutes of a typical commercial aviation flight, a person receives the same amount of radiation exposure that they would from one inspection by the Secure 1000.
  
  

American College of Radiation on the Minimal Exposure of Radiation from a Secure 1000

“An airline passenger flying cross-country is exposed to more radiation from the flight than from screening by one of these devices. The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement (NCRP) has reported that a traveler would need to experience 100 backscatter scans per year to reach what they classify as a Negligible Individual Dose. The American College of Radiology (ACR) agrees with this conclusion. By these measurements, a traveler would require more than 1,000 such scans in a year to reach the effective dose equal to one standard chest x-ray.”
“ACR Statement on Airport Full-body Scanners and Radiation.” American College of Radiology. web page link (26 January, 2010)