irradiated food labels

["Michael C. Baker" <mcbaker@lanl.gov>]

For everyone's information the docket item that Public Citizen is
protesting does not remove the FDA requirement to label irradiated foods.
What it does do is amend the requirements to state that a radiation
disclosure statement, which is required along with the radura symbol, is
not required to be any more prominent than the declaration of ingrediants
required under other FDA rules.   Public Citizen apparantly would like the
label to be the center piece of the product package which would "give rise
to inappropriate consumer anxiety" (wording from the FDA Modernization Act
conference report).  

Mike
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Michael C. Baker, Ph.D., P.E.
Environmental Science and Waste Technology Group
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mail Stop J594, Los Alamos, NM 87545

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