7/6/07

Environment: How Much of Your Food is Being Nuked Before it Hits the Shelf?

...last April, the FDA proposed a revision to those rules. Food which had undergone irradiation, but not "material change," would no longer have to bear the radura logo and companies could replace the word "irradiation" with the more consumer-friendly "pasteurized" or something else innocuous. Public comment on the current proposed change closes in early July.....AlterNet: Environment: How Much of Your Food is Being Nuked Before it Hits the Shelf?