On May 25, the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health released a new eight year national plan to address the World Health Organization’s findings or elevated risk associated with indoor radon. The plan speaks of radon in a variety of clear ways: “It can penetrate insidiously into homes and dwellings ...”.
The plan includes a summary of the health risk data that is clearly summarized in the following statement: From the pooling of European residential radon and lung cancer case control studies “corroborated by similar studies carried out in North America and China, demonstrate that the risk associated with prolong exposure to radon in residences is more serious than was foreseen by extrapolating the risk observed for (underground) miners . . .”.