Last Friday, Dr. Betsy Booren, Director of Scientific Affairs at the American Meat Institute, received a long-awaited letter from the Food Safety Inspection Service. It had been five long years almost to the day since
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Meat Industry Petition for Beef Irradiation Denied
By Mary Rothschild on
Eighteen months ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) signaled that the meat industry’s 2005 request to use low-dose irradiation as a processing aid to reduce unwanted microbes — and…
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German E. coli Crisis Revives Irradiation Debate
By Gretchen Goetz on
The E. coli crisis currently sickening more than 3,800 and attributed to German-grown sprouts illustrates the need to keep produce safe, and the way to do this is through irradiation. So argues a recent opinion…
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Texas Researchers Devise New Irradiation Method
By Mary Rothschild on
Food-safety engineers from Texas AgriLife Research at Texas A&M University report they’ve devised a method to reduce the amount of irradiation needed to kill pathogens like Salmonella or E. coli O157:H7 that can contaminate fresh
Is Food Irradiation the Future? Part II
By Alisha Prakash on
Part II in a two-part series on food irradiation. On foodborne illness outbreaks caused by ground beef, fresh leafy greens, and spices–all foods that could arguably be made safer through irradiation–and the future of the …
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Is Food Irradiation The Future?
By Alisha Prakash on
Part I in a two-part series on food irradiation, with a focus on the science behind the technology.
With summer underway, barbeque season is in full swing. For some, that means a fresh salad, for…
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GAO: Transparency Needed on Irradiation at FDA
By Helena Bottemiller on
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could improve transparency and recordkeeping on key decisions on irradiation petitions, according to a new report conducted by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
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USDA: Meat Irradiation off Table for Now
By Helena Bottemiller on
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is not moving forward on a meat industry request to approve carcass irradiation as a food safety technique, according to Meatingplace.
Meat Industry Pushes Carcass Irradiation
By Dan Flynn on
Two and half weeks before The New York Times put the beef industry’s safety flaws under a microscope, the meat industry had renewed its campaign for beef carcass irradiation starting with the new administration right