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

["Patricia Milligan" <PXM@nrc.gov>]

A quick check of the public citizen web site shows that the article with the byline Washington DC is public citizen press release and not a newspaper article.  They hope, no doubt, that it will get picked up by the media and reported as news.  One would hope that the news media would actually talk to the store owners/managers to determine what is actually happening.  I would bet that if the story is positive, it won't be news.  but those are just my opinions and do not reflect the opinions of my employer.


Patricia A Milligan
pxm@nrc.gov
301-415-2223

>>> jmuckerheide@delphi.com 08/02 3:25 PM >>>
The "Battle of the Press Releases!"  

Would you trust "AUBURNDALE, Fla." or "WASHINGTON, D.C." (By Ralph Nader)? :-) 

Regards, Jim
muckerheide@mediaone.net 
========================

Bob Flood wrote:
> 
> >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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