Re[2]: USA Today -Reply

[CHARLES BLUE <BLUE.CHARLES@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV>]

I found it to be a good article that focused positively on food irradiation and actually mocked the voice of dissent. 
Really, who could make the following statement with a straight face? (selection of text from USA today)

But the idea of exposing food to gamma rays sets some people's teeth
                 on edge. "This isn't a solution to meat contamination," says Michael
                 Colby of the group Food and Water. "It's a series of whole new
                 problems." Radioactive materials pose a threat to plant workers and to
                 consumers who might be placed in danger by the need to transport
                 such materials. "We're not talking about needing one or two (new food
                 irradiation) plants," he says. "We're talking about hundreds of nuclear
                 plants." 

                 A better approach, he says, would be to focus on prevention of food
                 contamination, starting at the farm or ranch. "When you propose
                 irradiating the meat supply, you're saying it's OK to have filthy cattle
                 yards . . . because at the end of the line, you're going to zap the meat
                 with the equivalent of three million chest X-rays," he says. "Meat
                 shouldn't be contaminated with fecal matter, whether you irradiate it or
                 not."  - (I might add that this is a talented effort to misdirect the issue.)
Charles Blue
blue.charles@epamail.epa.gov
The following comments/opinions are my own and not that of my employer.
>>> "Neil, David M" <NEILDM@inel.gov> 11/05/97 12:49pm >>>
     They appear to have altered the URL.  I found it at:
     http://web.mit.edu/techreview/www/articles/nd97/skerrett.html

     Dave Neil
     neildm@inel.gov


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Date:    11/4/97 5:30 PM


After reading the USA Today article check out:
http://web.mit.edu/techreview/articles/nd97/skerrett.html,it answers Mr.
Colby quite well.


At 12:00 PM 11/4/97 -0600, you wrote:
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>Check out the article in todays USA Today concerning food irradiation. What
>the heck is Michael Colby of the group, Food and Water talking
>about.....hundreds of nuclear plants???
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>http://www.usatoday.com/life/health/diet/eating/lhdea018.htm
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George E. Cook, Jr.
UCI Medical Center EH&S