AW: The Question of Irradiated Beef in Lunchrooms

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

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The Question of Irradiated Beef in Lunchrooms

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/29/dining/29WELL.html

January 29, 2003

By MARIAN BURROS



   RRADIATED beef may be coming soon to your local school cafeteria.



The farm bill that was passed last May directs the Agriculture

Department to buy irradiated beef for the federal school lunch program.

It will be up to local school districts to decide if they want it.



Americans have been reluctant to buy food that is irradiated, a process

that uses electrons or gamma rays to kill harmful bacteria like

salmonella and E. coli 0157:H7, which cause food poisoning. Some people

fear, wrongly, that the food is radioactive. Others are concerned that

the process hasn't been tested well. They may be correct.



Based on European studies showing the formation of cancer-causing

properties in irradiated fat, the European Union, which allows

irradiation only for certain spices and dried herbs, has voted not to

permit any further food irradiation until more studies have been done.



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This is wrong, wrong, wrong! This is only another proof of distorted and

totally wrong information distributed in order to shift people's opinion in

the desired direction. Please do not ask me for any details, I do not waste

my time by scientifically and from the standpoint of legislation and

regulations to proof that this is a deliberate falsification of facts -

simply because only a very small number of persons - and not the addressees

of such "propaganda" - will read it and take it into consideration. Anyway

these people would simply launch the next nonsense and wrong informations.



Franz





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