RE: Food Irradiation devil's advocate

[M Nivas <motnivas@YAHOO.COM>]

Hi Rob, my point exactly - Thanks (with preserving

added)



Tom









--- Rob Gunter <rgunter@sec-tn.com> wrote:

> Tom,

> 

> You have identified two methods that creat cross

> links, radiation and

> cooking (preserving could be added).  What is the

> relative significance of

> each.  That is the real question.

> 

> Rob

> 

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> -----Original Message-----

> From: M Nivas [mailto:motnivas@yahoo.com]

> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 1:37 PM

> To: Rob Gunter; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Subject: Food Irradiation devil's advocate

> 

> 

> To All,

> 

> 

> When I go to Wright Patterson flight museum I

> purchase

> some freeze dried "Astronaut food" its Good!

> 

> Astronaut food is also sterilized  by gamma

> irradiation.

> 

> What about the foodstuffs being cross-linked into

> formation of carcinogens. I routinly crosslinked

> cellular materials, example:  proteins etc. with UV

> and Betas

> 

> It seems only natural that food would be cross

> linked

> using gamma irradiation, thus producing carcinogens!

> Sure most of it goes right through, but it still is

> enough to destroy and crosslink proteins into

> carcinogens! Otherwise the bacteria, viruses,

> mycoplasmas etc. would not DIE

> 

> So playing devil's advocate - Irradiation of

> foodstuffs

> will form some carcinogens.  I know what the first

> answer would be "one cooks food and forms

> carcinogens"

> 

> My answer is: you may be making twice or more

> carcinogens because your irradiating the food - Then

> cooking it! Now where's the meat?

> 

> Enjoy,

> 

> Tom

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

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