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State Set To Distribute Potassium Iodide Pills

Credit Pacific Service Union Starting next week, people in Ocean, Salem and Cumberland counties can add one more essential item to their beach bags: A free doomsday pill.

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Credit First Service Union State officials will begin distributing potassium iodide tablets on July 13 to anyone who lives or works with 10 miles of four nuclear power plants.

Importantly, potassium iodide that is not absorbed by the thyroid gland is quickly flushed from the system through urine.

Card Credit Mobile Service Iodized salt pills were credited with saving millions of Poles from thyroid cancer after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.

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Card Credit Discover Service If taken soon before or after exposure to a nuclear plume, the nonprescription drug blocks the thyroid from absorbing radioactive iodine, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The regulatory commission said it had earmarked $800, 000 to buy potassium iodide supplies for people living within about 10 miles of a nuclear plant. The United States has 103 nuclear power plants. "The commission has found that potassium iodide is a reasonable, prudent and inexpensive supplement to evacuation and sheltering for specific local conditions, " a statement said. The drug will be given to states that request it within 30 days, according to the commission.

Credit Public Service Union But potassium iodide, also known as KI, won't shield anybody from other fallout after an accident or terrorism at a nuclear facility.

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Card Credit Processing Service "Evacuation is the key," said state Health and Human Services Commissioner Clifton Lacy.

Center Credit Service Union Evacuation plans will be discussed with residents when they collect their free pills, Lacy said, at locations that would double as evacuation centers in nuclear emergencies.

Card Credit Service Wireless The pills would be taken for several days. New Jersey is giving a one-day dose to those with proof that they live or work within "emergency planning zones" near the Salem and Oyster Creek generating stations.

Credit Security Service Union Evacuation centers would hand out more tablets during a crisis. New Jersey received 722,000 free pills from the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission in April.

Credit Report Service The State Police Office of Emergency Management will manage the handouts, with help from local officials, volunteers and the state Departments of Health and Senior Services and Environmental Protection.

Blogspot Com Christian Eligible towns include Greenwich and Stow Creek in Cumberland County, and the Salem County communities of Elsinboro, Lower Alloways Creek, Mannington, Quinton, Pennsville and Salem City.

Christian Counseling Credit In Ocean County, eligible places are Barnegat, Barnegat Light, Beach Haven, Beachwood, Berkeley, Dover, Harvey Cedars, Island Heights, Lacey, Long Beach, Pine Beach, Ocean, Ocean Gate, Seaside Park, Ship Bottom, South Toms River, Stafford and Surf City.

Credit Federal Service Union Officials will accept driver's licenses, property tax records, utility bills, employee ID cards, paychecks or letters from employers as identification.

Credit Monitoring Service Pills can be obtained on July 13 at Manchester High School and the Salem County Department of Emergency Service, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Credit Division Service They also will be available July 17 at Pinelands Regional High School in Little Egg Harbor, and on July 24 at Bridgeton High School, between 4 and 8 p.m.; and again on July 27 at the first two locations.

Card Credit Online Service Some experts have urged all state residents to stockpile bottles of KI pills, which sell for $10 to $20 online. The tablets were harder to find on drugstore shelves last month.

Consumer Counseling Credit Inc Lacy said his department is talking to a pharmaceutical association about boosting supplies statewide.

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