Re: New York Times - Red Meat Irradiation Rules

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@mediaone.net>]

Hi Warren,

Similar arguments were used. One effect was that pasteurized milk had to
be labeled "Boiled Milk". That quickly passed when nobody bought the
'other kind". :-)

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
muckerheide@mediaone.net
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Warren Church wrote:
> 
> I think similar arguments could be used against the pasteurization of milk,
> Warren Church, UMass Lowell
> warren_church@uml.edu
> 
> Scott Flowerday wrote:
> 
> > I am not in disagreement with food irradiation, but I think you have
> > missed the point on this.  If food irradiation becomes a means to
> > lower basic sanitary conditions then it should be opposed.  If
> > sanitary conditions are maintained at the current level is food
> > irradiation cost effective?  If sanitary conditions were raised
> > (heaven forbid we hold an industry to high standards) is food
> > irradiation warranted at all?
> > Don't be so quick to condemn Ms.Foreman, maybe we should first examine
> > the motives of those that support food irradiation.
> >
> > This is clearly my opinion.
> >
> > > I am certainly not a microbiologist, but it seems to me that the mechanism
> > > for building resistance to an antibiotic (or pesticide) is a chemical
> > > mechanism, not a radiological one.  No antibiotic kills every singe
> > > bacterium, and the few that survive have the biochemistry to resist that
> > > antibiotic in the future.  It seems to me that if this were to happen with
> > > radiation, one radiates a little more or longer.
> > >
> > > Also, Ms. Foreman's comments seem to be typical of those of critics who are
> > > reaching and stretching for reasons to oppose food irradiation.
> > >
> > > Clearly only my own opinion.
> > >
> > > Ruth F. Weiner, Ph. D.
> > > Sandia National Laboratories
> > > MS 0718, POB 5800
> > > Albuquerque, NM 87185-0718
> > > 505-844-4791; fax 505-844-0244
> > > rfweine@sandia.gov
> > >
> > Scott D. Flowerday
> > Emergency Response and Investigation Branch
> > Bureau of Radiation Control
> > (512) 834-6688
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