Activists have re-ignited debate over the World Health Organization-endorsed practice of irradiating food, a common practice used to kill dangerous pathogens like salmonella and E.coli bacteria. The process has…
When the Department of Agriculture approved the use of irradiation for fresh and frozen red meat in 1999, the public reacted coolly. And when Dairy Queen announced a few weeks…
Ralph Nader‘s group Public Citizen is on a mission from God — to stop the electronic irradiation of food, a process that eliminates harmful bacteria. At…
Public Citizen and the Center for Food Safety (CFS) have taken their jihad against food irradiation to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Complaining that the food irradiation industry…
The News and Observer, a Raleigh (NC) daily newspaper, reports that the list of organizations endorsing the irradiation of meat and other food products now includes: the Food and Drug…
The Center for Science in the Public Interest and the Consumer Federation of America took cheap shots at meat irradiation in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune. This despite unequivocal endorsement of…
We told you yesterday that food irradiation involved exposing meat to “a tiny dose of gamma rays from electronic or radioactive sources.” A more accurate description would have called the…
Meat irradiation is a method of killing off harmful bacteria, such as E.coli, salmonella, or listeria, by exposing the meat to a substantial but brief dose of gamma rays from…
Chemistry professor Robert L. Wolke hit one out of the park with his latest “Food 101” column in the Washington Post. Wolke put the lie to the nannies’ needless…
