RE: Food Irradiation devil's advocate

["Feldman, Gerald" <gfeldman@MSX.NDC.MC.UCI.EDU>]

Franz,



Statistics apply to populations.  Individual lives do not get shortened by

"a few minutes, hours or even days".  They get shortened by years or even

decades if you happen to be the one effected.  



In actuality, what you are doing is accepting the statistical chance of

having your life shortened appreciably. 



Gerald Feldman

gfeldman@uci.edu







-----Original Message-----

From: Franz Schoenhofer [mailto:franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT] 

Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 7:31 AM

To: M Nivas; Rob Gunter; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: AW: Food Irradiation devil's advocate



... We call it in Europe "quality of life", which means that we accept that

our life may be shortened statistically by a few minutes, hours or even

days, as long as we enjoy life and food, whether it contains (potential)

carcinogens or not.



Best regards,



Franz







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