FDA and food irradiation

["Michael C. Baker" <mcbaker@lanl.gov>]

For your information...Mike...mcbaker@lanl.gov


>    Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 17:51:46 -0400
>    From: "Noel Petrie" <npetrie@citizen.org>
>Subject: Report released: A Broken Record
>
>You can now view "A Broken Record: How the FDA Legalized-- and Continues 
>to Legalize-- Food Irradiation Without Testing it for Safety" on Public 
>Citizen's website at:
>
>http://www.citizen.org/cmep/rad-food/brokenrecord/Broken%20Record%20-%20Word%20version.pdf
>
>The report reveals how the FDA over the past 17 years has ignored its own 
>rules for certifying the safety of irradiated food; relied on more than 
>100 occasions on research declared "deficient" by FDA toxicologists, and, 
>along with other federal agencies, misled Congress about the safety of 
>irradiated food.
>
>Moreover, the FDA has systematically dismissed evidence that irradiated 
>food may not be safe for human consumption. Much of this evidence 
>suggesting that irradiated food can cause mutations of genetic material 
>and be toxic resulted from government-funded research submitted to the FDA 
>and members of Congress as early as 1968.

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