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OT: Irradiated Food

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Wow... Automobile parts, wires, cables, tires and gemstones are irradiated. (Irradiated gemstones for different colour.)

"US FDA has cleared...treatment of hamburger patties ..contam...by E coli" Neato... At the right place, you can get 'nuked' and nuclear burgers ( gamma irradiated and microwave reheated). :P

"NASA is authorized to sterilize frozen meat for astronauts at doses of 44 kGy as a notable exception" A way to keep the astronauts from getting food sick. Barfing in zero must be a mess. :P

I left a green apple in the car for about 6 weeks.. It's still green! (I keep dodging it.) Irradiated?

Which gives me a marketing idea to help sales of green apples :P

Call'm Hulk Apples! Irradiated with gamma radiation. (Maybe funnier if you know there's a Hulk movie now in theatres.)

D from BC British Columbia Canada

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D from BC
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Now if you can only figure out a way to irradiate the beef while it's still on the cow.... Then you've got something!

-mpm

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mpm

Perhaps someday next to the microwave oven they will be a food irradiator. A new appliance? How about combine a food irradiator with a microwave oven. Putting a Cobalt 60 source in a microwave oven sounds like a potential waste problem but X-rays are used for food irradiation too.

Magnetron + Xray source...guessing it wouldn't make a microwave oven much bigger. Just an idea.. Probably full of difficulties.

Awhile back somebody posted that store bagels last longer than homemade bagels. Irradiating the homemade bagels will make'm last longer.

D from BC British Columbia Canada

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D from BC

You can leave an apple sitting around for many weeks and they'll still look beautiful. They will spontaneously collapse at some point. A work colleague did this experiment before irradiation (mid 1970s). I think it took about 8 weeks before it morphed.

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qrk

Apples stored in sawdust or peat moss will keep all winter. Your great-grandparents knew that trick.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

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Phil Hobbs

Around here the Mormon high school kids sell apples packed with separating formed-foam layering. The keep all winter if you have a cool storage place.

...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson

We have 4 RDI units that generates 1.5 Mvolts at 60 ma's, lots of electrons! Bring your food in on next harvest!, we'll take care of it for you!.

P.S. bring your own packaging! :)

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