PEOPLE who like their food irradiated before it’s cooked can now celebrate.
More than 80 supermarkets in Minneapolis are offering irradiated versions of
that all-American staple, the hamburger.
Food safety advocates who have been pushing irradiation as a solution to
food-borne illnesses welcomed the debut of irradiated hamburgers. The likes of
Salmonella and Escherichia coliO157 infect 77 million
Americans every year, leading to thousands of deaths. Irradiation kills the bugs
before the beef gets to the market. But suspicions about the things irradiation
might do to food have mostly kept irradiation inside the laboratory.
However, all that has changed with…
