Re: Irradiation

 We have Irradiated ground beef here ...
I think they are allowed to use it on meat and milk without particularly telling you. On milk, if you look at the "Good until xxx" date, you can get a pretty good idea. If you are buying "fresh" milk and the date says it will be good for two or three months, of course it has been zapped. Regulations about fruit are different, I think.

Vince, they already do irradiate some kinds of fruit, as well as meat and milk. Why don't those things get cooked? It's intended to give things longer shelf life, at least in part by inhibiting microbial activity, although along the way it destroys some nutrients and certain 'structural qualities', which I don't understand.

I don't understand much about it at all, in fact. Just wondering if it can keep other fruits fresh longer, why not pumpkins. If I could figure out where to get it done, I would certainly be open to experimenting.

B.




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