One last comment on Irradiation

[GEORGE CICOTTE <GEORGE_CICOTTE@health.ohio.gov>]

     I personally hope we can close out this thread pretty soon.  I think 
     we've reached the point of diminishing returns.  However, there still 
     appears to be a miscommunication that I hope I capture here, in that 
     Herr Franzhoeffer discusses the issue of whether foodstuffs ought to 
     be irradiated in the first place, and whether ALL foodstuffs should be 
     REQUIRED to be irradiated, while many of the rest of us appear to 
     operate on the basic premise that the decision WHETHER to irradiate 
     should be a strictly commercial or private decision, with the 
     additional proviso that anyone who doesn't want to eat the stuff 
     doesn't have to, because there are plenty of options and one should be 
     ALLOWED to act independently of the government insofar as it is 
     possible to do so.  This debate is, I believe, better suited to a 
     discussion of national and political freedoms, rather than radiation 
     safety.
     
     I promise to climb off my soapbox now.
     
     V/R
     George Cicotte
     george_cicotte@health.ohio.gov