Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site zehntel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!zehntel!berry From: berry@zehntel.UUCP Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: irradiated food - (nf) Message-ID: <1327@zehntel.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Feb-84 04:25:20 EST Article-I.D.: zehntel.1327 Posted: Tue Feb 28 04:25:20 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 16:18:56 EST Sender: berry@zehntel.UUCP Organization: Zehntel Inc., Walnut Creek, CA Lines: 18 #R:tekig1:-155000:zinfandel:4300050:000:564 zinfandel!berry Feb 24 10:48:00 1984 What little I have read about food irradiation makes it sound wonderful. Basically what it does is sterilize the food, with no other effects. Any induced radiation tends to be very short lived, and very low level anyway. With irradiation, we would not need to use EDB on grains! The problem is the 'general public's irrational fear of anything with the word 'radiation' in it. (I mean, if people think that sodium erythrobate is made from earthworms, what won't the beleive next.) Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900