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lettuce to kill illness-causing bacteria is a step that two Iowa State actur
University professors have long advocated.
Dennis Olson is a professor of animal science and directs Iowa
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State's Linear Accelerator Facility, one of only two commercial-sized
irradiation facilities for food research and demonstration on a US
university campus. He has researched food irradiation for more than a
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decade, and is an expert in food safety, particularly in the area of meat
processing. (The FDA has allowed irradiation of red meat to control
pathogens since 1997; in poultry since 1990).
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irradiation could have prevented some of the illnesses and three
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deaths that occurred during spinach and lettuce outbreaks in 2006.
"If we treat all of the lettuce and spinach, then there's going to be
a very rare instance of exposure to illness-causing microorganisms,"
Olson said. "What's sad is that the FDA, after a nearly nine-year review,
selected only two products involved with the massive illnesses in
2006."
What's significant about the new FDA rule is that it is the first
time the federal government has allowed produce to be irradiated at
levels sufficient to kill E. coli, salmonella and listeria – microorganisms
that make people sick. The FDA has approved the use of irradiation
to eliminate insects from wheat, potatoes, flour, spices, tea, fruits
and vegetables since 1985, but it couldn't be used to treat vegetative
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