Re: News Blurb on Caldicott and Millstone -Reply

[Dick King <king@reasoning.com>]

radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu writes:
 >
 >Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 12:08:24 -0500
 >From: Kenneth Prendergast <KMP@nrc.gov>
 >To: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
 >Subject: News Blurb on Caldicott and Millstone -Reply
 >Message-ID: <s4c887ea.061@nrcsmtp.nrc.gov>
 >
 >Caldicot is not playing with a full deck, but apparently that doesn't  stop these idiots
 >from printing everything she says without any confirmation.   Maybe Hershey, the
 >farmers, or safety officials can sue her sort of the beef industry and Oprah?  The two
 >senators also seem to be missing a few cards.  
 >
 >These ramblings are my own KMP@ NRC.GOV
 >

The farmers, maybe, but the laws only apply to perishable foods, and only to
statements made at a critical time.  Alar was the canonical example; it was
about apples, and the statement was made at harvest time so there was no time
for a refutation.

-dk