Food Irradiation

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• The Food That Would Last Forever  - a book by Gary Gibbs, Avery 1993 Highly recommended by Mindfully.org !

• Accounting Dispute Led to Demise of SureBeam - San Diego Union-Tribune 14jan04
• Titan Sees Limited Impairment Charges Following Bankruptcy Of SureBeam Corp -  Dow Jones Newswires 13jan04
• Schools Seem in No Hurry to Buy Irradiated Beef -  NY Times 8oct03
• LA School Board Bans Irradiated Food - Press Release / Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program 10sep03
  • Resolution Prohibiting The Use of Irradiated Food - Los Angeles Unified School District / Board of Education City of Los Angeles 9sep03

• The Truth about Irradiated Meat - Consumer Reports Aug03

• Rad-Food Laws Gutted - Food Irradiation Alert!  Jul03

• Irradiated Ground Beef Approved for Schools  - Washington Post 30may03

  • Irradiated Ground Beef Technical Requirements Schedule – GB-2003 / USDA 29may03

• SureBeam Food Irradiation Facility Bars Consumer Organization from Tour - Press Release 7may03

• European Study Links Food Irradiation to Cancer  - FoodProductionDaily.com 5mar03

• Minutes’ statement of the EU Scientific Committee on Food on Food Irradiation 5mar03

• Letter to FDA Commissioner Dr. Mark McClellan / Public Citizen and The Center For Food Safety 26feb03

• Zapped Beef Catching On?  - Capital Press Agriculture Weekly 7feb03

• Weis Markets to Sell SureBeam® Irradiated Ground Beef Throughout Six State Region - PRNewswire 10feb03

• Stop & Shop Supermarket Chain Offers Customers Irradiated Ground Beef  - PRNewswire 3feb03

• Irradiation Is No Quick Fix for Beef UCS Commentary / Wall Street Journal 8aug02

• Nuclear Lunch: The Dangers and Unknowns of Food Irradiation -  Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture 

• Supermarkets Test Appetite For Meat That's Irradiated - Wall Street Journal 7nov02

• Resolution Against Irradiated Meat  - Berkeley School Board 6nov02

• Food Irradiation Approved by USDA  - SF Chronicle 22oct02

• SureBeam Up 36% as Food Irradiation Approved  - Dow Jones Newswires 18oct02

• Irradiated Food can now be Labeled  "COLD PASTEURIZATION" CBC 10oct02

• FDA Allowing Food Companies To Change Irradiation Label to "Cold Pasteurization" Reuters 9oct02

• Detection by Thermoluminescence of an Irradiation Treatment of Five Species of Dehydrated Fruit and Vegetables  - BFE (Germany) Feb02

• Preventing Pathogenic Food Poisoning: Sanitation Not Irradiation - International Journal of Health Services Jan01

• Requirements for Irradiating Foods - FDA May99

• Nuking America's Dirty Food - Ronnie Cummins / Pure Food Campaign

• FDA Searching for new way to say Irradiation - AP 4nov00

• Food Irradiation & Nuclear Weapons  - Z Oct00

• Food Irradiation Position of ADA  - J Am Diet Assoc. 2000

• Comments on Proposed List of Food to be Authorized for Irradiation - EC 11jan00

• Irradiation best way to end E. coli threat  - Betsy Hart / Scripps Howard 3sep97