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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.med,net.physics,net.cooks
Subject: Re: sterilizing food with radiation
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Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 15:12:18 EST
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In article <560@scc.UUCP> steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) writes:
>> I understand that preliminary tests are being done on the use of
>> radiation to sterilize food. 
>	No - it has been used on spices and pork for years.

This is interesting. Does this mean pork marketed in the US, or only
some butchered here and shipped overseas, or is this taking place in
other countries only? And what sort of pork products?

As for spices, this is something I never thought of before, but it
sounds eminently sensible -- spices need sterilizing to kill off pests
and infestations, but can't be heated or dampened, in many cases. So
does this apply to spices from certain areas, or what? And are some
brands or marketing channels of spices selling irradiated varieties, and
others not? (For example, would bulk spice xyz be irradiated, but the
stuff sold in little bottles (and priced 10000% higher) not be irradiated,
or vice versa?)

Any details you could provide, or pointers to sources of info, would be
appreciated.

Regards, Will

PS to "net.cooks" readers -- this host has just eliminated access to
many "non-technical" groups, so I cannot participate in net.cooks any
more. I don't know if the software will let me post to it or not. If
this does get on that group, is there someone there who would be willing
to batch the net.cooks postings for each week or couple of weeks and
send them to me as one mail message? If so, please drop me a line!
Thanks! Will Martin

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