Bibliographies

(45) Food Irradiation - Will It Keep the Doctor Away? (MIT Technology Review, Nov-Dec, 1997)
"Every major food and health organization has endorsed food irradiation as a foolproof and safe way to rid our food supply of disease-causing microbes. Then why aren't we using it?"

(46) Food Safety Through the Ages (American Council on Science & Health)
http://www.acsh.org/publications/priorities/0903/foodsafety.html
"The leader in the fight against food irradiation is Food & Water, Inc. This obviously well financed outfit claims, for example, that consuming irradiated foods can shorten lives and cause birth defects. One can only guess why Food & Water disseminates such claims despite the absence of evidential support. Fearmongering has become a boom industry for alarmists and a popularity prop for politicians."

(47) Food Safety and Ionizing Pasteurization (Testimony by Michael Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H., U.S. Senate - 10/08/97)
"Foodborne disease is a critical public health problem today ... Clearly, it is now the number one reason for visits to our nation's emergency rooms ... Food processed with ionizing radiation has no residual radiation nor does it create any unique radiolytic compounds. In plain English, irradiated meat is safe to eat!"

(48) Food Safety's Waiting Weapon (Richard Rhodes - New York Times, 08/28/97)
http://www.junkscience.com/news/irradiation.html
"The solution to the problem of food poisoning ... has been sitting on the shelf for most of 40 years while hundreds of thousands of Americans have been sickened and thousands have died. It is the equivalent of pasteurization, and its neglect is a disgrace. The technology is food irradiation."

(49) Thousands of U.S. Food Related Deaths Preventable through Expanded Use of Safe Technologies (CAST)
"According to a report just released by the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST), a consortium of thirty scientific and professional societies, foodborne bacteria cause as many as 9,000 deaths in the United States annually; yet scientifically proven safe, low doses of pasteurizing radiation can kill over 99% of most foodborne bacteria."

(50) Food Irradiation (University of Vermont)
"... President Clinton's recently proposed budget for 1998 ... adds $42 million to increase the control of food borne illnesses ... The nation is becoming aware of its most preventable disease. Irradiation of food may be one of its greatest steps in getting there."

(51) Safe Meat: There Is a Better Way (American Council on Science & Health)
http://www.acsh.org/press/editorials/meat.html
"If we are serious about avoiding future cases of food-borne illness and death as well as such significant food waste, it is time for all of us to stop responding to the scaremongers. We must listen, instead, to scientists, who are unanimous in their conclusion that food irradiation-not more government regulation-will make America's food supply even safer."

(52) A useful food safety tool: Irradiation Technology (American Veterinary Medical Association)
"Our nation deserves the significant health benefits food irradiation technology could afford without delay," Dr. Steele said. "Much foodborne illness and associated deaths could be prevented."

(53) safe food, irradiation, April Mason, ecoli (Purdue University Agricultural Extension Service)
www.purdue.edu/UNS/html3month/970829.Mason.irradiate.html
"Irradiation is one more safety precaution. It's not in lieu of other precautions, such as proper cooking, but irradiation destroys the organism before it reaches the consumer ... An instance where irradiation would've been particularly helpful, Mason explains, was last spring when microbial organisms on strawberries and raspberries-foods that aren't often cooked-caused an outbreak of food-borne illness."

(54) ADA Press Release Food Irradiation (American Dietetic Association)
Bruhn said that the public's lack of understanding of food irradiation and nuclear science has made it easier for special interest groups to spread misinformation and fear. "In fact, irradiation of meat and poultry is an important public health measure, just like pasteurization of milk and juices," Bruhn said.

(55) Foodborne Diseases-Possibly 350 Times More Frequent Than Reported (World Health Organization)
"According to the latest edition of the World Health Statistics Quarterly, surveys indicate that foodborne diseases may be 300-350 times more frequent than the reported cases tend to indicate ... It is believed that hundreds of millions of people worldwide suffer from diseases caused by contaminated food."

(56) Public Health Experts Take Aim at a Moving Target: Foodborne Infections (Journal of the American Medical Association - 01/08/97)
"Scientists estimate, based on several studies conducted over the past ten years, that foodborne pathogens sicken from 6.5 million to 81 million people and cause some 9000 deaths in the U.S. annually..."

(57) Unsafe Food Has Officials Calling for New Methods of Processing and Storage (Infectious Diseases in Children-News for Pediatricians) http://www.slackinc.com/child/idc/199706/unsafe.htm
"Irradiation is the fourth leg on the American food table," said Madden. "Only three legs are in place right now-pasteurization, chlorination and immunization-without that fourth leg, we feel America's food table is not yet set."

(58) PublicPolicyIRRADIATION (National Food Processors Association)
"National Food Processors Association supports food irradiation as a safe and beneficial technology that can benefit consumers and the food industry by providing a tool for further improving our nation's food safety."

(59) American Meat Institute Calls on FDA to Act on Three-Year Old Beef Irradiation Petition - 9/4/97 (American Meat Institute)
"In the wake of the recent, highly publicized outbreak of foodborne illness linked to E. coliO157:H7, we are compelled to ask: What is delaying this important petition? As FDA knows, it is a petition for use of technology with the literal potential to save lives."

(60) FOCUS - A Second Look at Irradiation (American Farm Bureau - 10/06/97)
www.fb.com/views/focus/fo97/fo1006.html
"Legislation is pending in Congress that would force the FDA to approve irradiation for beef. Consumers should get in the act too. People who want to ensure that the burgers their families eat won't cause them to fall sick or, worse, die, should call on the FDA to approve and promote irradiation for beef."

(61) IFT Statements & Testimonies-June 10, 1997 (Institute for Food Technologists)
"Broader use of irradiation and other pathogen-reducing technologies promises a significant step forward in further improving food safety."

(62) IFT News Release: 12/26/96 (Institute for Food Technologists)
"With consumer attitudes toward irradiation changing, and the benefits gained in food safety, our consumer ratings of irradiated, vacuum-packaged , chilled, boneless pork chops suggest a promising potential for market acceptance of irradiated pork."

(63) IFB, IBA & IPPA Urge FDA Approval of Irradiation (Illinois Farm Bureau)
"...the process is being endorsed by the Illinois Farm Bureau, Illinois Beef Association, and Illinois Pork Producers Association, which are urging the Illinois congressional delegation to support a measure currently in Congress to hasten the FDA decision-making process on irradiation of beef."

(64) Irradiation Update (Food Explorer)
"The recent outbreaks of this pathogen in Japan that caused almost 10,000 illnesses, mainly in children, may result in an interesting use of irradiation for pre-cut vegetables as well, according to Loaharanu."

(65) R & I: January 1, 1997-Operations (Restaurants & Institutions)
"Responding to hectoring from a critic (Todd Winant of EarthSave), one panelist (Dean Cliver, Ph.D., of the University of California-Davis) abandoned the measured tone of a scientist and exploded, 'How could you live with yourself if a child died of an E. coli outbreak because you prevented his hamburger from being irradiated.'"

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