Zapping food with radiation
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Every year, one in four Americans gets a food-borne illness from something like E. coli, which caused a scare when it showed up on some California spinach in 2006. One person died and at least 190 other people got sick.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said at a scientific conference this week that in some cases, just washing food may not be enough. It may be better for producers to zap it with radiation.
There’s more on the story here. But what do you think? Would you eat food knowing it was irradiated, if the best science told you that the process had a cleansing effect? My theory is people are suspicious of anything that has to do with radiation -- particularly when it comes to food.
