Using Irradiation to Make Food Safer for Consumers
Title: Using Irradiation to Make Food Safer for Consumers
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 2210 | Pages: 8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Using Irradiation to Make Food Safer for Consumers
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 2210 | Pages: 8 (approximately 235 words/page)
In the world today, there is a limited access to fresh and uncontaminated food. Gunjan Sihna, of Popular Science, reports that "The U. S. Centers of Disease Control estimates 6.5 million confirmed cases and more than 25 million additional unreported incidents of food poisoning each year" (65). For example, with seventy-five percent of the chicken in Europe and sixty percent of the chicken in the United States infected, salmonella is a serious problem ("Food Irradiation"). The United States …showed first 75 words of 2210 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2210 total…Irradiation: Solution or Threat." Consumers International. Accessed: 14 September 1999.
Available at: http:/193.128.6.150/consumers//campaigns/irradiaion/irrad.html
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