Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site inuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!inuxa!linda From: linda@inuxa.UUCP (Linda Pearlstein) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: food irradiation Message-ID: <272@inuxa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Feb-84 16:17:34 EST Article-I.D.: inuxa.272 Posted: Wed Feb 22 16:17:34 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Feb-84 00:24:25 EST Organization: AT&T Consumer Products Div., Indianapolis Lines: 19 As I understand it, it's not the radiation which is of concern -- presumably you can objectively determine whether the irradiated food contains residual radiation -- but rather the nature of the chemical changes induced by irradiation. It is these chemical alterations which preserve the food; how they work and whether they might be harmful still needs to be understood.