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Matt Easton, a junior bioengineering major, practices his kicking on the Polo Fields Tues
day. He plans to try out fot the Texas A&M Football Team in the spring.
Radiation
Continued from Page 1
The radiation dosage levels set by FDA
are millions of times the amount in a typ
ical chest X-ray, but that isn’t a valid com
parison, said Pat Hansen, an FDA chemist
who coordinated the review.
“You do a lot of things to your food that
you don’t do to a living thing,’’ she said.
The FDA acted on a 3-year-old peti
tion from Isomedix Inc., a New Jersey
company with long experience in med
ical sterilization that wants to offer meat
processors irradiation with cobalt-60
gamma rays. There are many other ways
to safely irradiate meat and other com
panies are in the market.
Such techniques would enable meat
packers to kill bacteria at the end of the pro
duction line, after it is already sealed in
packages and cannot be contaminated fur
ther. This is particularly important in
ground beef, where bacteria can easily get
beneath the surface during grinding.
The meat industry lobbied vigorous
ly for irradiation as an alternative to the
Clinton administration’s proposals for
greater government authority in recall
ing contaminated products and pun
ishing violators. Allies in Congress
pushed through legislation ordering the
FDA to act on the Isomedix petition
within 60 days.
But consumer acceptance has been
slow in other products. The process has
never been widely used on chicken,
even though it has been available since
1990 and a few companies have tried it.
“The industry isn’t against it. It just has
n’t caught on yet,” said Richard Lobb,
spokesman for the National Broiler Coun
cil, a poultry processors group.
It will probably take some time be
fore irradiated meats start to show up in
the grocery store. The Agriculture De
partment must first develop regulations
to go along with the dosage levels set by
the FDA.
In addition, companies face the chal
lenge of figuring out how to fit irradia
tion technology into their plants. Most
irradiation facilities are large, concrete
structures to which products must be
transported in bulk — although the in
dustry says the technique can be adapt
ed to processing lines.
The food industry promises a broad
education campaign to increase con
sumer awareness of how the process
works. In addition, this year’s FDA
spending bill included a provision
changing labeling requirements for all
foods treated with irradiation so that
the words can be smaller, no larger than
those for ingredients.
“Some of this skepticism is to be ex
pected,” said Ben Zingman, vice presi
dent of the Grocery Manufacturers of
America. “We’ve got to see what needs to
be done to make consumers feel good
about this technology.”
Acuff said a lot of the public concern is
unwarranted due to the years of research
in the United States and Europe.
To some critics, the FDA approval
leaves many questions unanswered,
such as the true long-term impact of
eating treated food and whether the
process diminishes vitamins and nutri
tional content.
“It’s going to be impossible for the food
industry to convince the public that a
hamburger with ketchup, mustard and ir
radiation is safe,” said Michael Colby, ex
ecutive director of the Food & Water food
safety group in Walden, Vt.
However, Acuff said irradiation could help
save lives, especially the lives of children.
“I’d like to take care of my kids,” he said.
T RAFFIC
Continued from Page i
“We are trying to increase campus
awareness,” Mensik said. “In the past
“We want to see a drop in
the number of accidents
over the next few years.”
FARAH MENSIK
TAMC CO-CHAIR
four years, I’ve seen a lot of accidents.
We hope that students will become
more aware and realize that accidents
can happen to anyone. We want to see
a drop in the number of accident over
the next few years.”
Officials with Bryan and College
Station police departments count 11
fatal accidents in the two cities this
year. Officials said driver inattentive
ness, intoxication and speed cause
these accidents. Falling asleep at the
wheel is also another common factor
listed in accident reports.
Graduate
Continued from Page 1
In other business, Stella Roberts,
director of the MSC Bookstore, ad
dressed the costs of textbooks.
Roberts said Bames & Noble’s con
tract with A&M stipulates that the
bookstore can only charge 25 percent
more than the cost of a book.
Barnes & Noble signed a 10 year
contract with A&M to operate the
book store in the MSC.
Monday’s meeting marked the
last GSC meeting of the fall semes
ter. The first spring meeting of the
GSC will be Jan. 20.
OPEN DOOR
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Student Affairs Office
wants you to be aware
of our open door
policy.
Our office is here to
help you. Please feel
free to come by 10th
Floor Rudder Tower or
call 845-4728
http://vpsa.tamu.edu
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