The Alabama Department of Public Health has fined BFGoodrich Tire Manufacturing of Tuscaloosa $650 for failing to follow procedures in handling radioactive material.

Kirksey E. Whatley, director of the departmen'ts office of radiation control, said Wednesday the missing radioactive material poses no health threat to the public. He said the material was a very small amount and was in a contained unit.

The plant told the state agency in May that two devices containing the radioactive material were missing.

Whatley said the devices, which contained small amounts of the radioactive isotope Americium 241, have not been located. He said they might have left the plant when the production line on which they were attached was dismantled and removed as scrap.