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RE: Meat Irradiation Note
It is a sad commentary when decisions are based on fears, and not a clear
understanding of the issues.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----Original Message-----
From: Miller, Mark L [mailto:mmiller@SANDIA.GOV]
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 3:13 PM
To: Miller, Mark L; 'RADSAFE'
Subject: Meat Irradiation Note
Importance: Low
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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