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From: kissell@flairvax.UUCP (Kevin D. Kissell)
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Subject: Re: Irradiated Food
Message-ID: <339@flairvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 17:35:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 23 17:35:00 1984
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Organization: Fairchild AI Lab, Palo Alto, CA
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If cobalt 60 is the pure gamma emitter advertised, then, as has been pointed
out, the risk of irradiated food items becoming radioactive themselves is
indeed small.  I wonder, however, what sorts of subtle photochemical reactions
can be induced by photons with gamma energies.  Anyone got any data?

		Kevin D. Kissell
		Fairchild Research Center
		Advanced Processor Development
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