Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

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of 26 April 2017 (Status as of 1 January 2022)


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Art. 95 Further requirements for placing on the market

1 Be­fore be­ing placed on the mar­ket, every sealed ra­dio­act­ive source must be tested for leak tight­ness and ab­sence of con­tam­in­a­tion. Test­ing must be car­ried out by a body ac­cred­ited for this activ­ity or re­cog­nised by the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity.

2 The cap­sule of sealed ra­dio­act­ive sources whose activ­ity is great­er than 100 times the li­cens­ing lim­it must com­ply with the re­quire­ments of ISO 291935 for the in­ten­ded ap­plic­a­tion and be clas­si­fied ac­cord­ingly.

3 In jus­ti­fied cases, the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity may grant ex­emp­tions from para­graphs 1 and 2 or re­quire ad­di­tion­al qual­ity tests.

35 ISO 2919: 2012-02-15, Ra­di­olo­gic­al pro­tec­tion – Sealed ra­dio­act­ive sources – Gen­er­al re­quire­ments and clas­si­fic­a­tion. The ISO stand­ards re­ferred to in this Or­din­ance can be con­sul­ted free of charge at the Fed­er­al Of­fice of Pub­lic Health, CH 3003 Bern. They can be pur­chased from the Swiss As­so­ci­ation for Stand­ard­isa­tion, Sulzer­allee 70, 8404Win­ter­thur; www.snv.ch.

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