---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 10001"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "10001"
heading: "Statement of findings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/10001"
units:
  - "Chapter 107 — Consumer-Patient Radiation Health and Safety"
---

# §10001. Statement of findings


The Congress finds that—

- (1) it is in the interest of public health and safety to minimize unnecessary exposure to potentially hazardous [radiation](/usc/42/10003.md?p=1) due to medical and dental [radiologic procedures](/usc/42/10003.md?p=2);
- (2) it is in the interest of public health and safety to have a continuing supply of adequately educated persons and appropriate accreditation and certification programs administered by [State](/usc/42/10003.md?p=7) governments;
- (3) the protection of the public health and safety from unnecessary exposure to potentially hazardous [radiation](/usc/42/10003.md?p=1) due to medical and dental [radiologic procedures](/usc/42/10003.md?p=2) and the assurance of efficacious procedures are the responsibility of [State](/usc/42/10003.md?p=7) and Federal governments;
- (4) [persons who administer radiologic procedures](/usc/42/10003.md?p=5), including procedures at [Federal facilities](/usc/42/17061.md?p=8), should be required to demonstrate competence by reason of education, training, and experience; and
- (5) the administration of [radiologic procedures](/usc/42/10003.md?p=2) and the effect on individuals of such procedures have a substantial and direct effect upon United States interstate commerce.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–35, title IX, § 976, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 598.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Pub. L. 97–35, title IX, § 975, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 598, provided that: “This subtitle [subtitle I (§§ 975–983) of title IX of Pub. L. 97–35, enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Consumer-Patient Radiation Health and Safety Act of 1981’.”