Re: Food irradiation---do seeds sprout? Did that denature the

["ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>]

You might as well say that people who don't want to drink pasteurized milk
shouldn't have to.  And people who want to eat raw pork chops should go
right ahead.  And why should we have motorcycle helmet laws and seat belt
laws?  If people want to take the risk, why not? Why get shots before you go
to a third world country?  Why drink bottled water on Italian trains?  etc.

Ruth F. Weiner, Ph. D.
7336 Lew Wallace NE
Albuquerque, NM
505-856-5011
fax 505-856-5564
ruth_weiner@msn.com

From: D. Kosloff <dkosloff@ncweb.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Sunday, April 02, 2000 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: Food irradiation---do seeds sprout? Did that denature the


>The only direct marketing test of irradiated foor involved a grocer near
>Chicago IL.  He sold both artificially irradiated and organically
irradiated
>strawberries in his store.  He priced them the same, displayed them side by
>side and put up large signs indicating which were irradiated and which were
>not irradiated.  He was unable to maintain his supply of irradiated
>strawberries high enough to meet his customer demand.
>
>People who do not want to eat artificially irradiated food should not.  It
>is unlikely that the entire food supply would be artifically irradiated.
It
>is impossible that all exposure to harmful organisms could be stopped by
the
>use of radiation on food.
>
>>

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