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From: prl@ethz.UUCP (Peter Lamb)
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Subject: Re: sterilizing food with radiation
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Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 19:50:01 EST
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In article <351@mhuxl.UUCP> smh@mhuxl.UUCP (henning) writes:
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>From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA mhuxl!smh
>Irradiated food has been available in most other countries of the
>world for years.  I especially saw a lot of it in Australia.  They
>had many grocery stores in the out-back that didn't have refrigeration.
>Since they had irradiated products including milk, they didn't
>need refrigeration.

I'm not sure about this - do you mean milk marked UHT? If so, then as
far as I know this is not irridated, rather somehow flash pasteurised
at a much higher temperature than normal pasteurisation (I believe the
UHT stands for `Ultra Heat Treated' or something similar). Certainly
if the claims that irridation doesn't affect the taste are true, then
UHT milk is _not_ irridated, it tastes very different from ordinary
milk.

I don't remember ever seeing packaged food in Australia being
marked as irridated, but then our packaging laws aren't what they
might be.....
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Peter Lamb	({seismo|decvax}!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!prl)
Institut fur Informatik
ETH-Zentrum
8092 Zurich