Hi Bill,

I recently saw some film footage of the (food) relief efforts to Europe immediately post-WWII.

There were docks loaded to the brim with pallettes of boxes, each pallette looking identical. A close up of several of them showed that each box was marked with Contains IRRADIATED Food .

I was surprised by this, having assumed that irradiation was a relatively new thing (last 30-35 years or so) and remembering the controversy surrounding more recent government approval for the process for foods for the general public.

Given that scientific knowledge about radiation has improved radically *since* WWII and given the absence of reports of people in Europe of that era being affected by that food, it seems to me that it must be reasonably safe.

Cheers,

Jim N


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>I suppose that also goes along with the paranoids who are afraid of irradiated meat, you know, premicrowaving a little (sort of) to get rid of e-coli...
>I think they are trying to say that irradiated = radioactive
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>Bill
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