Irrational fear of irradiation making us sick

Each and every time I read about the next big food borne illness that sweeps this country, I get annoyed about two things. First, the lax inspection standards and gutted regulatory structure, thanks to the Bush administration ( and the other preceeding administrations - W. can’t hog all the blame ). Second, that so much of this is preventable by simple means of irradition.

Note that I didn’t say radiation.

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