The laws stifled debate about food irradiation, bovine growth hormone, plant growth regulators, pesticides and splicing genes to create brave, new watermelons.
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Food irradiation, in particular the irradiation of potatoes to prevent sprouting while in storage, was approved for use in Canada in 1960.
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Many of his publications and much of his work centered around food irradiation and the development of radiation facilities around the world.
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But even without that leak, the program would have run into problems because food irradiation has not caught on in this country.
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In 1945, the Supreme Court invalidated Steenbock's patents on the grounds that food irradiation was a natural process that could not be patented.
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Numerous patents are registered in his name; he published 36 scientific papers, wrote hundreds of articles and published two books on food irradiation.
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"Food irradiation " conjures up images of glowing green stomachs and mushroom-cloud explosions that might have been avoided by " food ionization ."
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He adds that it must also be stressed that food irradiation does not replace proper or good handling practices-dirty foodstuff when irradiated remains dirty.
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At the Food Irradiation 2001 conference that winds up in Washington Wednesday, the primary topic is how to " overcome buyers'resistance " to irradiated ground beef.
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Using standard food irradiation technology, they irradiated some samples of each with a low-intensity gamma-ray beam, and other samples with a beam three times as strong.
