Re: irradiated food labels

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>]

On Wed, 5 May 1999, Michael C. Baker wrote:

> 
> 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).  

	--This should have been made clear when asking people to send
letters. My letter was already sent before I saw this.

Bernard L. Cohen
Physics Dept.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Tel: (412)624-9245
Fax: (412)624-9163
e-mail: blc+@pitt.edu


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