Meat Irradiation Note

["Miller, Mark L" <mmiller@SANDIA.GOV>]

 WHAT'S  NEW    Friday, 08 Nov 02

THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND and THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY.



2.  IRRADIATED MEAT: RISK PERCEPTION AND THE AMERICAN HAMBURGER.

Several grocery chains are gambling that consumers, spooked by recent

outbreaks of illness and death from E.coli and listeria bacteria, may at

last be ready

to try irradiated ground beef.  Past attempts to introduce consumers to

irradiated foods

fell victim to the exaggerated fear of anything "atomic," but the two

largest meat recalls in

history may have changed that.  The supermarket experiment will test whether

the very

real risk of bacterial contamination can overcome the public's irrational

fear of

radiation.



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