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Public acceptance lags behind
In many countries public remains skeptical of food irradiation, often because of a poor understanding of its value in providing a safe food supply, relative to other processing methods. In a similar fashion, when milk pasteurization was first introduced, many consumers vehemently objected thinking that its goodness "would be destroyed by heating." Yet food irradiation is designed to erradicate microbes and food-poisoning organisms that contaminate many foods and endanger those who eat them. The World Health Organization (WHO) calls food irradiation "a sound food processing technology which offers consumers food products with an added margin of safety."
Anti-nuclear activists in U.S. have caused much upheaval and delayed opening of a food irradiation plant in Florida, with sensational and adverse press coverage. Many news reports choose to ignore full weight of scientific evidence in support of food irradiation, impeding rather than advancing progress in food safety.
There remains a large body of expert opinion, including scientific evidence, which maintains that irradiation is harmful because it not only removes harmful organisms but beneficial organisms as well, and may in fact destroy some of nutritional values of foods thus irradiated. While I maintain position that anti-nuclear activists are 100% dead wrong in their “actions”, their “opinion” is 100% “right on” – in my opinion, after carefully considering all evidence pro and con, my personal opinion is: irradiation, at this stage of development, is not safe, nor is it safe to consume foods which have been irradiated as a preservation method.
In fact, our bodies require many of micro-organisms which are killed via irradiation just in order to digest and absorb nutritional values of foods which are irradiated. I recommend that, if your diet consists of any amount of irradiated foods, you research “Greens” products in general and that you seriously consider adding a “Greens” product to your daily diet. I recommend newest, and only 100% vegetarian, native and natural greens product on market today -- Bio88+ -- which is found here.
Loring Windblad has studied nutrition and exercise for more than 40 years, is a published author and freelance writer. His latest business endeavor is at http://www.organicgreens.us