FDA Allows Irradiation of Your Vegetables

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 12:49 in Health & Medicine

The FDA has approved irradiation of spinach and iceberg lettuce to kill food-borne pathogens, a Band-Aid approach to food safety that may ultimately hurt small, local farmers.

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