{"id":840,"date":"2004-02-09T12:01:05","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T20:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/02\/09\/food-irradiation\/"},"modified":"2004-02-09T12:01:05","modified_gmt":"2004-02-09T20:01:05","slug":"food-irradiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/09\/food-irradiation\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Irradiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pueblo.gsa.gov\/cic_text\/food\/irradiation\/398_rad.html\">Irradiation: A Safe Measure for Safer Food<\/a> from the FDA:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAs part of its approval, FDA requires that irradiated foods include labeling with either the statement &#8220;treated with radiation&#8221; or &#8220;treated by irradiation&#8221; and the international symbol for irradiation, the radura. Irradiation labeling requirements apply only to foods sold in stores. For example, irradiated spices or fresh strawberries should be labeled. <font color=\"red\">When used as ingredients in other foods, however, the label of the other food does not need to describe these ingredients as irradiated.<\/font> Irradiation labeling also does not apply to restaurant foods.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>T<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/images\/20040209radiation.jpg\" align=\"right\" width=\"149\" height=\"140\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/images\/20040209iradlogo.gif\" align=\"right\" width=\"168\" height=\"168\"\/>hough I shouldn&#8217;t just point out the scary negative side&#8230; It&#8217;s a good, pretty balanced article, written in 1998. In the article, the author says that virtually nobody uses irradiation except for spices, where &#8220;Many spices sold in this country also are irradiated&#8221;. It&#8217;s supposed to be safe. I don&#8217;t know, it still gives me the willies.<\/p>\n<p>That cute pink symbol to the right is the &#8220;radura&#8221;, the symbol for irradiated food. No, I&#8217;ve never seen it before either.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows what that other symbol is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Irradiation: A Safe Measure for Safer Food from the FDA: As part of its approval, FDA requires that irradiated foods include labeling with either the statement &#8220;treated with radiation&#8221; or &#8220;treated by irradiation&#8221; and the international symbol for irradiation, the radura. Irradiation labeling requirements apply only to foods sold in stores. For example, irradiated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}