Re: Food poisoning

[Jim Muckerheide <jmuckerheide@delphi.com>]

Susan Gawarecki wrote (quite rightly):

> The following are compelling statistics to support radiation processing
> of food, though it's not mentioned in the article:
>
> STUDY PUTS U.S. FOOD-POISONING TOLL AT 76 MILLION YEARLY
> from The New York Times
>
> WASHINGTON -- Although the United States has one of the
> safest food supplies in the world, about 76 million Americans
> suffer food poisoning each year and about 5,000 die from it, the Federal
> Government said on Thursday.
>
> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said the
> estimates
> in a study it released today were the most complete ever compiled on
> food-borne illnesses (the agency avoided the everyday term "food
> poisoning")
> and were based on many sources, including death certificates, hospital
> surveys and academic studies.

We must also consider that many restaurant or other on-site
food handing problems will not be affected by irradiation if the
contamination happens after storage. However, if time exposed to
room temperatures at the food preparation/serving facility is the
primary problem, starting with a significantly lower level of
contamination is still significant.

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
Center for Nuclear Technology and Society at WPI
Radiation, Science, and Health
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>
> "These new estimates provide a snapshot of the problem and do not
> measure
> trends and do not indicate that the problem is getting better or worse,"
> Dr.
> Jeffrey Koplan, the centers director, said in a statement.
> <http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/health/091799hth-food.html>

> --
> In my personal opinion, SLG
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