Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act of 1968

Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act of 1968

Long title	An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the protection of the public health from radiation emissions from electronic products.
Acronyms (colloquial)	RCHSA
Enacted by	the 90th United States Congress
Effective	October 18, 1968
Citations
Public law	90-602
Statutes at Large	82 Stat. 1173
Codification
Titles amended	42 U.S.C.: Public Health and Social Welfare
U.S.C. sections amended	42 U.S.C. ch. 6A §§ 262-263a 42 U.S.C. ch. 23 § 2011 et seq. 42 U.S.C. ch. 23 § 2021
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 10790 by Paul Rogers (D–FL) on March 12, 1968 Committee consideration by House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Passed the House on March 20, 1968 (382-0) Passed the Senate on October 3, 1968 (passed voice vote, in lieu of S. 2067) Reported by the joint conference committee on October 10, 1968; agreed to by the House on October 11, 1968 (agreed voice vote) and by the Senate on October 11, 1968 (agreed voice vote) Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 18, 1968

Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act of 1968 was an amendment to the Public Health Service Act mandating performance standards for electronic products suspectible of electromagnetic radiation or radiation emissions. The United States statute established provisions involving research and development programs for the studies of electromagnetic shielding, ionizing radiation, non-ionizing radiation, and exposure assessment to humans.

The Act of Congress was recodified to Title 21 from Title 42 with the passage of the Safe Medical Device Amendments of 1990. The electronic product radiation control provisions are authorized for administrative law purposes by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

The H.R. 10790 legislation was passed by the 90th United States Congressional session and enacted into law by the 36th President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson on October 18, 1968.^[1]