Re: Consumers Endorse Irradiated Meat in Florida; Food...

[Bob Flood <bflood@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

>AUBURNDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 2000--Several Florida retail
outlets
>continue to report stronger than expected sales of irradiated fresh ground
beef.
>Store officials at DeLoach's Meat Market in Lakeland and Stuart's Finer
Foods in Stuart
>say their only problem is keeping the product in stock.

>WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Two Florida grocers halted sales of irradiated meat due
>to lack of consumer interest, which resulted in paltry sales. DeLoach's
Meat
>Market in Lakeland and Stuart's Fine Foods in Stuart decided to stop
selling
>experimental food products to their customers just days after sales began.

Without fear of contradiction, I can confidently state that BOTH of those
stories can't be true. Both may be untrue, but both cannot be true. Wonder
who's lying? And why?
============================
Bob Flood
Dosimetry Group Leader
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
bflood@slac.stanford.edu


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