FDA Quietly Increases Radiation
From http://www.naturalnews.com/038255_radiation_meats_FDA.html :
Rather than actually take the time to address the root causes of meat and poultry contamination, which more often than not are a direct result of outrageously unsanitary factory farming practices (http://www.naturalnews.com/025716_antibiotic_animals_antibiotics.html), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has instead decided to simply up the doses of radiation that industrial food producers are allowed to blast on their filthy, contaminated meat products.
In the first new rule recently published in the Federal Register, the FDA specifies that "unrefrigerated uncooked meat" can now be irradiated right alongside refrigerated, frozen and cooked meat. And in the second new rule, the FDA increases the amount of ionizing radiation that can be applied to poultry products such as chicken by 50 percent, bumping the dosage up to 4.5 kilograys (kGy) of radiation from the previous 3.0 kGy.
You can view the two published rules here:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-11-30/pdf/2012-28967.pdf
These two rules, which were enacted quietly and without any media fanfare (big surprise), come more than a decade after the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) first petitioned the FDA for their passage back in 1999. And in the years that followed, numerous consumer advocacy and food safety groups decried the proposals, warning that irradiation is dangerous.
More at the first link above.
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The emotive language ("their filthy, contaminated meat products"
used in the articles quoted by OPer snot most definitely indicates that the publisher of Natural News is far more interested in pushing an agenda than actual truths.
America has a heavily industrialised food production sector, and a less than stellar track record in food safety, FIRST AND FOREMOST, because that is what the consumers demand. Lots and lots of really, really cheap. Quality and environmental benignity are very, very low on most peoples' lists of priority.
