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Article: Food irradiation: we may be zapping up the wrong tree.
- Article from:
- Environmental Nutrition
- Article date:
- December 1, 1994
- Author:
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When an outbreak of deadly food poisoning shook the Pacific Northwest two years ago, a wave of panic struck the country. The culprit was the bacteria called E. coli 0157:H7. The vehicle was undercooked hamburger meat from a Jack in the Box restaurant. Four children died and hundreds of people became ill. Since then, more than 45 additional outbreaks have been confirmed across the United States.
These incidents dramatically underscore the need for an overhaul of the safety of the nation's food supply. The question is, how to clean up the mess?
Food irradiation has been proposed as one solution to the food safety problem. Last summer, Isomedix, an ...
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