US: Irradiation of high-risk foods: Has its time come? - (The Prarie Star)
November 9, 2007 – 8:02 pmDaryll E. Ray who holds the Blasingame Chair of Excellence in Agricultural Policy, Institute of Agriculture, University of Tennessee, and is the Director of UT’s Agricultural Policy Analysis Center (APAC), writes that ground beef recalls this year have reached 29 million pounds in 2007 and there are still two months to go.
The size of companies involved in the recalls due to E.coli O157:H7 have ranged from small local firms with local or regional distribution systems to large firms like Topps Meat Company and Cargill Meat Solutions.
It seems to us that tackling a problem like this requires a combination of private and public policy so that we don’t continue to see children put on dialysis machines because of what they ate.
The most immediate thing a consumer can do is to make sure that all of the hamburger that they serve is cooked to a minimum of 160 degrees F and that […]
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