Will my strawberries glow in the dark? Is it right to expose food to radiation? Does "cold pasteurization" disguise the nature of the disinfection process? Ethical issues surrounding labelling of irradiated foods ...

Many of the viandss that we eat are irradiated in order to kill bacteria, eliminate parasites, improve proceeds quality, and extend shelf life. Irradiation can be a substitute for chemical preservatives in nourishments The U.S. Centers for Disease mastery and Prevention predict that if 50 percent of the nation's meat (hypothetically containing 50 percent of disease-causing organisms) were irradiated it would impede approximately 900,000 cases of infection, 8500 hospitalizations, above 6,000 catastrophic illnesses, and 350 deaths each year. (1)

Over 40 years of research upon food irradiation has found that aliments exposed to low ...