CERRIE was an independent Committee established by the UK Government in 2001, following concerns about the risks of internal radiation. The Committee operated between October 2001 and October 2004.

Although the Committee was set up and sponsored by two UK Government departments, DEFRA (Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) and DH (Department of Health), it operated completely independently of them. Its Final Report was not vetted by any Government agency.


Dr Philip Day

Philip Day is Reader in Chemistry at the University of Manchester, where he was first appointed as Lecturer in 1968. He gained a First Class Honours Degree in Natural Science (1962) and a D.Phil. in Chemistry on the Co-ordination Chemistry of Uranium (1965) at the University of Oxford.

During a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University, Illinois, USA, he worked on inorganic reaction mechanisms with Professors Basolo and Pearson. His research interests in environmental radiochemistry and inorganic biochemistry include actinide and transition metal chemistry and the physiological chemistry of toxic metals.

Recent interests have been the biokinetics of trace elements and the development of novel analytical methodologies for technetium and plutonium uptakes using mass spectrometric techniques. He has produced around 200 publications in these areas.

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