[Larry]

My father had a wrist watch with radium painted numbers on it that he wore during his forty odd years as a pilot in the RAF (one of their longest serving pilots) and he still has it now and he is still with us enjoying life in his 80's.

It's a shame these Health and Safety Act people do not put things in to proportion. But then this is quite typical of modern life in the EU where no one is consulted when making Laws and so the ordinary folk get criminalised while some businesses get away with dumping toxic waste.