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...rooms that will be needed to sterilize fresh or frozen meat on an assembly-line basis (and will add 3[cents] or 4[cents] to the retail price of chopped sirloin), they want to gauge consumer demand. Admits John Masefield, chief executive of the Whippany, N.J., medical sterilization company Isomedix, whose three-year-old petition prompted the FDA action: "A lot of people want to be second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NUKING YOUR BURGERS? | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...radioactive. "There's nothing in common at all between a nuclear reactor like Chernobyl and an irradiator," says Karl Abraham, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). "It's like comparing bananas to tigers." Treated food "can be immediately eaten," says George Giddings, director of food irradiation at Isomedix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Food Fight Over Gamma Rays | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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