Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site flairvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!decvax!decwrl!flairvax!kissell From: kissell@flairvax.UUCP (Kevin D. Kissell) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: Irradiated Food Message-ID: <339@flairvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 17:35:00 EST Article-I.D.: flairvax.339 Posted: Thu Feb 23 17:35:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Feb-84 06:56:11 EST References: <2534@rabbit.UUCP> Organization: Fairchild AI Lab, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 11 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 uucp: {ihnp4 decvax}!decwrl!\ >flairvax!kissell {ucbvax sdcrdcf}!hplabs!/