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Article: America's food supply is world's safest; beef irradiation will make it even safer.(Originated from KRT)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- December 18, 1997
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WASHINGTON _ No one disputes the fact that the U.S. food supply is the safest in the world. But recent, widely publicized outbreaks of food-borne illness have focused attention on various ways that the food industry can provide even greater food safety protections for consumers. One of the technologies that can be used to advance food safety is irradiation _ a safe, simple and inexpensive process used since the 1950's to kill harmful pathogens in many foods and to preserve their shelf life.
The food irradiation process is quite straightforward: Food is exposed to a carefully measured amount of intense radiant energy, called ionizing radiation. This cold ...