Food Radiation

Notes

• Food travels a long way to get to your plate. 
• Potatoes come from Maine and strawberries from Florida or Mexico. 
• Sometimes food makes people sick.
• Millions of Americans get sick every year from contaminated or spoiled food.
• A way to preventing you from getting sick is to treat your food by irradiation.
• Gamma rays are sent through fresh or frozen foods. 
• More then 40 countries dont allow food irradiation. 
• Radiation kills living cells. 
• It can destroy nutrients.
• Irradiation doesnt make food radioactive.
• Irradiated food must be labeled.

Questions 

1. In your own words explain the problem of food irradiation. 

The problem to me is that food irradiation is being taken lightly and not seriously. So more and more and eating irradiated food even thought they dont know its bad and what it can do. 

    3. You see two containers of a food at the supermarket. One is irradiated; one is not. The price s the same. Which would you buy?

I would buy the one that is not because it is healthier and i dont really trust irradiated food. I also dont really know what it does, so i would rather just stick with normal foods.