Open AccessFood Irradiation: Unresolved Issues
Author(s) -
Donald B. Louria
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/321907
Subject(s) - panacea (medicine) , food irradiation , commit , medicine , diarrheal disease , environmental health , irradiation , diarrhea , pathology , alternative medicine , physics , database , computer science , nuclear physics
Food-associated diarrheal disease is a major problem in the United States. One approach offered as virtually a panacea is food irradiation. Irradiating our food would have some unequivocal benefits, but there are some important unresolved issues that must be addressed before we commit our society to a technology that could be harmful.
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