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

["Mercado, Don" <don.mercado@lmco.com>]

Certainly say that! It throws a little chlorine in the gene pool!

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> the
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 
> >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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