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THE BATTALION
A process ensuring safer food tor consumers
will soon be implemented at a new Texas
A&M facility. Food irradiation, a process
by which harmful pathogens are
eliminated from common foods, — -•
will be used at the Electron Beam
Food Research Facility. However,
some consumer activists are
wary of the new technology.
“Food irradiation is a tech-
nique in which we actually inactivate
and kill microorganisms,” said Dr.
Mark R. McLellan, director and
professor in the Institute of Food
Science and Engineering. An elec
tron beam that passes through the
food kills the microorganisms, he said.
“It actually breaks the DNA of
microorganism so that it cannot grow."
Food irradiation has been approved for many
common foods. Beef, poultry, fruits, vegetables,
potatoes, onions and spices are all eligible tor
the process. Two groups that have not yet been
approved for irradiation are seafood and fully-
processed products.
Pathogens that can be eliminated
through irradiation include E. coli.
Salmonella and anthrax.
The process of food irradiation has not
gained universal support. Skeptics, comprised
mostly of various consumer activist groups, are
afraid that there may be hidden dangers. These
fears are unfounded, McLellan said.
“It is not dangerous,” he said. “It is prob
ably singularly one of the most studied tech
nologies for use prior to implementation. The
World Health Organization has explored the
technology in depth, and they have agreed it
is not dangerous.”
In fact, the organization recommended that
the process should be widely used.
While activists may not be convinced, shop
pers have approved of irradiated foods.
“All test markets of food irradiated products
have been extraordinarily positive,” McLellan
said. In one study, in which irradiated and non-
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Though food irradiation is a huge stride:
food science, McLellan stressed that it is not
cure-all pill.
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one of our tools amongst many.”
Even the simple process of freezing food
seem risky compared to irradiation.
“The chemical changes in a frozen pn
are far more dramatic, far more extensive,
you would see in an irradiated produi
McLellan said.
Although the electron beams are not in
the facility will soon be fully operational.
“We just had the grand opening March!
that was really to celebrate a high degree
completion,” McLellan said.
The facility is going through its final phase
electronics installation.
Texas A&M has formed a partnership
SureBeam Corporation to construct the faci
Sure Beam is not a food processor, but manufi
Hirers of the system.
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system and they will install it
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Possible bioterrorist threat
ATLANTA (AP) - Hundreds of
health officials descended on
Atlanta this week for an annual
conference on emerging infec
tious diseases and were warned
that terrorists might try to
spread deadly germs through
the food supply.
Terrorists could try to make the
biological attack even more dan
gerous by taking down critical
communications systems,
according to experts from the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
"The national system was over
whelmed" by the anthrax scare
last fall, said Dr. James Hughes,
chief of infectious diseases at the
Atlanta-based CDC. “Clearly we
learned that we were not ade
quately prepared. This was a
small attack."
The conference agenda, usually
filled with sessions on obscure
diseases and small outbreaks, is
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Vioxx linked to
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CHICAGO (AP) - The popu
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linked to five cases of a no
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U.S. Food and Dru :
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