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Article: IRRADIATION WILL NIX FOOD POISONING.(Editorial)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 10, 1997
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It's a good rule of thumb that technological solutions work better than increased regulation.
Before 1920, thousands of babies died annually in New York and other large American cities from drinking contaminated milk.
The solution wasn't more federal dairy inspectors or a merger of government agencies. It was pasteurization.
The solution to the problem of food poisoning - whether the food involved is hamburger, strawberries, raspberries, cider or some other product susceptible to bacterial contamination - has been sitting on the shelf for most of 40 years while hundreds of thousands of Americans have been sickened and thousands have died. It is ...