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Article: Irradiation is promise for maintaining safe food supply
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- The Topeka Capital-Journal
- Article date:
- June 27, 2002
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K-State Research and Extension
MANHATTAN --- Having spent more than 30 years studying food
science, Karen Penner knows firsthand that Americans are blessed with
the safest, most bountiful food supply in the world.
And yet, scientists also know the safety of that food supply is
regularly at risk. The National Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention report that more than 200 known diseases can be
transmitted through food.
The threat, however, doesn't frighten Penner, a food safety
specialist at Kansas State University. She said the food industry
often addresses problems quickly, having developed such technologies
as steam pasteurization and irradiation, and implemented such
programs as ...