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Irradiation is not healthy. Do not use it
***What right does the government have to subject us to irradiated food without our
knowledge. Before applying a knee jerk reaction shouldn't other options be
thoroughly explored? Is it really such a big problem that we will take a chance in
creating even a more devastating problem?
***Stop irradiating spinach and lettuce.It is not healthy. Have concern for people rather than the greed for money that rules you-you Satinists.
***I think it is scary when we don't even have control over what is going into our body. what is the point of eating veggies if they are poisoned? I don't want to be poisoned.
***Please do not allow irradiation of our fruits and vegetables. We eat these because
they are one of nature's wonderful treasures, and provide a great number of
nutrients and health benefits. Irradiation is a "quick-fix" for the produce industry that only allows them to be lazy, and ends up harming the consumer.
***Please reconsider irradiation of spinach and lettuce as a solution to a problem that stems from large scale business practices. It's getting harder and harder for those of us who make health a priority to buy nutritious foods. Will we all be forced to grow our own? To plant community gardens? That's where the current trend will lead if the government does not decide to help, rather than harm us.
Please listen to the independent experts (meaning those with no connections to
agribusiness or factory farming). Please put health concerns before business
concerns. It is not accidental that America is a nation of sick people. Diminished
nutritional value and harmful additives in factory farmed food has played a major
role in the declining health of our citizens. We expect government to work for us,
not against us. Please put the people first and make agribusiness clean up its
act. Put the people first this time. Please. Thank you. Marina Fournoy
*** Please stop irradiating our food immediately. The FDA can't eliminate enough of
us with their high-powered drugs, now they are going for the food. Also, STOP
this foolish genetic altering of our food. There is no way that you are going to
improve what GOD has already given us. So, stop trying and get down on your
knees and give thanks for the wonders of our Creator.
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***DO NOT AGREE ABOUT IRRADIATING ANY FOODS. QUIT MESSING W/ NATURE REGARDING OUR FOOD...isn't there enough Cancer as it is. Why do we have to irradiate all bacteria.. we need some bacteria to develop our immunities.
We don't need Nuked food. Isnt' there enough Cancer as it is.
QUIT TRYING TO IMPROVE NATURE!
***please find a more healthful solution to this problem. No irradiation! PLEASE
***DO NOT irradiate any of our grocery foods. It is extremely toxic for our bodies. Get your act together and do the right thing. Protect our foods from dangerous irradiation. What you need to do is clean up all the terrible pesticides and toxic fertilizers that are
used on all the conventional crops grown in the U.S. We will not under any
circumstances buy any irradiated food period. I will only buy Organic or grow my
own organic foods. Get busy and clean up the whole dirty farming industrial complex including Monsanto and all their GENETICALLY ENGINEERED SEEDS AND
FOODS!!!
***Do NOT irradiate our food! I will grow my own.
***Please stop this threat to our health. Putting a bandaid on a broken leg sure
doesn't do much good-and ignoring the problem of industrialized, genetically modified food-now to be irradiated!-is horrifying. Irradiation kills the food and will create super bacteria. We should be able to make our own choices about the food we eat.
***Do NOT irradiate my vegetables!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
***Irradiation of foods reduces the nutrition in the foods that our citizens need to reverse the health crisis we are experiencing in the USA. Please stop irradiation. The proper way to eliminate contamination of our vegetables is to heavily control the run off and pollution from livestock operations. The e. coli
contaminations come from animal excrement from the factory livestock operations.
Irradiation kills the nutrients we need to get from the food. Irradiation is a
nonsense approach to fix a problem caused by bad animal husbandry practices. Stop the contamination at the source, the meat production operations, not the downstream effects.
***We shouldn't have to worry about GMO and irradiation on top of pesticides. But thanks to an industry driven government, that's exactly what's happening. PLEASE STOP IRRADIATION, or AT THE VERY LEAST, MANDATE THAT
FOOD BE LABELED AS SUCH!
***I do not believe the use of ionizing radiation to control Food-Borne Pathogens and Infectious Protozoa is a good idea. Ionizing Radiation will generate free radicals and toxic molecules that are extremely dangerous to our immune system. I urge FDA to reconsider this action. Instead, I think FDA should recommend cooking the vegetable to kill bateria.
*** The insanity of creating a "solution" that damages our food supply and ultimately
the people who unknowingly eat generated free radicals and damaged molecules
could only be created by persons with vested interests, who do not care one whit
about the people that they serve. I strongly oppose this bill!
Jerry Alexander, D.D.S.
***I do not irradiated foods myself, nor do I want to serve them to my family. I feel they are unsafe for the body!
***I am deeply concerned about our foods being radiated in the market place. I do not wish to eat
such foods and it is my understanding that those foods will not be as nutritious as they once were. I would prefer it not happen and that instead of covering up the mistakes made by the producers, they should be corrected in the field. If foods are radiated without the public's knowledge in the market place and in restaurants, I think that is a crime. We should have a choice and know more
about what has been put on those foods we consume, including all other toxins like pesticides and herbicides. Radiation is just another way to make our foods less desirable and unhealthy. If this happens I think America, will be sicker because of it. Our commercial foods need to become more nutritious with better practices, not less.
***I do not want to purchase irradiated lettuce, spinach or any other vegetable. These foods would lose valuable nutrients. There are other ways of dealing with the bacteria. Irradiating food makes food more dangerous, not safer, The formation of free radicals, which can set off chain reactions in the body that destroy antioxidants, tear apart cell membranes, and make the body more susceptible to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, liver damage, muscular breakdown and other serious problems
***DO NOT IRRADIATE OUR FOOD!!!
***On behalf of our 42,000 members, I'm writing to oppose the FDA's recent approval of irradiation for fresh spinach and lettuce. PCC Natural Markets is the largest consumer-owned grocery retailer in the United States with nine stores in the Puget Sound region of Washington state.
Our customers are concerned that irradiation compromises the quality and safety
of food. Research shows that irradiation destroys vitamins and other nutrients,
and also can create dangerous chemical byproducts. Very few tests have been
done to determine the long-term health consequences of eating radiated food, not
to mention the effect on flavor, texture and overall quality.
Food irradiation also is expensive to implement and is a distraction for the
unsanitary conditions of the industrialized food system. It does not address the
systemic, root causes of contamination.
I urge you to repeal the approval of irradiation of fresh spinach and lettuce and
instead enforce existing regulations that would ensure the safety of our food
supply. Tracy Wolpert, Chief Executive Officer
***I understand that the science does not exist about long-term effects of eating irradiated food. The FDA should not make guinea pigs out of American citizens. Irradiation of food should not be permitted. If we can not have that protection, at least make sure that restaurants let customers know if they are serving irradiated food. Thank you, Inez Martinez, Ph.D.
*** Dear Sirs. Myself and the majority of my patients are extremely health conscious and do NOT want to be eating adulterated foods, ie, GMO and irradiated foods! The safety of these things is very much in question and we do not want to put our health and especially our childrens health at risk with unproven long term affects. If these foods are to be forced on us in these states, then at the very least labeling should be REQUIRED stating GMO or irradiated foods so that we have a choice to eat them or not ! After all this is still America where we should have a choice and not something forced on us !
***dont we have enough stuff to watch out for already? lets not add anything more to the dilemma.
***I am opposed to the irradiation of any foods for any reason simply so agribusiness can make more of a profit at the expense of nutritional value for people. As it is we do not get full nutritional capacity form most foods produced due to processing of foods and heavy tillage and washout of micronutrients from the soil. Also what is done with the radiation "sink" afterward? Yet another ploy to make radiation appear beneficial to people.
REAL, BASIC ORGANIC FOOD IS GOOD FOR PEOPLE and won't continue to produce a fat society. Sincerely, Ilse Funk
***How is this keeping the public safe, which is your number one priority for an organization run by the United States Government to protect its citizen's from harmful activity. This needs to be regulated
and stopped!
***I strongly oppose the irradiation of produce for human consumption. This will destroy much of the nutritional value of such produce and is likely to create dangerous free radicals in the produce. It's your job to protect the public form health risks, not create a new cancer threat!
If the mistake of produce irradiation is made, at least require warnings on all
food so damaged, not just that in grocery stores. We need to know whether we are
risking our health and lives by eating in restaurants, schools and nursing homes.
Thank you for your attention in this matter.
James Hogg, D.C., DIBAK
***Please rethink your decision to allow radiation of food. That's like throwing out the baby and drinking the bath water!
I am a recent convert to organic foods, and not in just a small part to
decisions like FDA just made regarding this. One thing I hope for is enough
more converts to organize and get a ground swell big enough to replace FDA with
a worthy and viable group of individuals with a grain of common sense.
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I AM 100% AGAINST IRRADIATION OF OUR FOOD. MAKE THE FOOD FARMS CLEAN UP THEIR ACTS AND PRODUCE DECENT FOOD FOR THE CONSUMERS. STOP PROTECTING THE HUGE CONGLOMERATES AND MAKING IT EASIER FOR THEM TO PRODUCE UNFIT FOOD, AND START PROTECTING THE CONSUMERS WHO WANT NUTRITION....NOT DEAD FOOD.
***Please reconsider the plan to irradiate our produce as it will also "kill" the good
nutrients which will lead to more health problems when we don't get the vitamins
and minerals that we need from our food. I am in the health care profession and I
see far too much illness resulting from people not getting enough nutrition in
this "fast food" nutrient empty world. Further plans to zap our produce instead of
going to the source- the growers to clean up their act only adds to this problem.
In my work I strive to find and correct the ROOT cause of the problem not just treat the symptom. This is a far better way to restore good health than constantly
chasing symptoms around which only leads to more complicated symptoms. So
please consider all the side effects before proceeding.
Thanks, Connie Prodromou
***Food irradiation obviously changes the food. If the ionizing radiation is enough to kill cells (bacteria) and viruses, then the radiation is enough to destroy or change plant cellular material. Considering the uproar about trans-fats and how the people have made laws to insure consumers know that they are eating trans-fats in restaurants and other places, the federal government should take heed and make sure that people across the board know what they are eating. Irradiated food is not optimal for the consumer. Fresh food is optimal. If people do not know that they are eating irradiated food, then they are not receiving optimal nutrition nor are they receiving optimal information. Hence, they do not have the opportunity to make a positive change in their own consumption or to make a positive change in a food industry that used to not need irradiation. As Americans, we need more information, not less. Please don't cover American eyes!
***DO NOT ALLOW RADIATED FOOD TO REACH THE PUBLIC...
*** To Whom It May Concern, I am a physician and I am a firm believer in preventive medicine. Let's improve the purity of our food and water supply by first enforcing the laws already on the books. Crack down on producers and countries that export to our country products that are contaminated with chemicals, bacteria, lead, etc. Give incentives to these countries (such as lower tariffs) to police and monitor themselves to ensure a safer food supply. Keep American products here at home instead of exporting them for greater profits forcing us to import tainted and infected produce from China,
Mexico and other countries. Expand the services of the FDA with more inspectors
in the field especially at the ports of entry where very few container ships are ever inspected. This is not only a health issue but a national security issue as well. Return the FDA to its watchdog agency role dedicated to protecting the citizens of the USA against unhealthy food and drugs as opposed to the politicized agency it has become serving the special interests of the Food and Pharmaceutical companies these past eight years.
Sincerely, Michael A. Royfe, M.D.
*** NO IRRADIATED VEGGIES!! Radiation kills bacteria... and also the nutrients in the food. so until you can prove that there is no damage to the food itself and it's nutrients, there should be NO radiation!
*** Please think about this decision. Most people eat vegetables because they are full of life and nutrients. Now, if someone treats them with something that kills life (bacteria), doesn't it make sense that it will also kill the nutrients of the vegetable as well? Radiation will generate free radicals and toxic molecules that we don't see in nature. This will be extremely dangerous to your immune system.
Now supermarkets may be required to label the veggies as irradiated. But restaurants, schools, hospitals, and nursing homes won't have this requirement. You could go for an evening out and come home with a belly full of nuked food. Something stinks here.
***Regarding the SAFE production, processing an handling of food I recommend instead of an industrial process of radiation, an extra energy cost, what needs to be conducted is localized food production. More funding should be in this area. I believe some new technologies for greenhouse production would eliminate the reason why scientists at the FDA think irradiation should even be considered as an option for protecting our food. It is impossible to protect our food when the process of irradiating our food inevitably causes harm to our food.
Removing even the smallest amount of vitamin, or as in the case of irradiated
meat, likely creating carcinogens like benzene is dangerous and against
everything I study in sustainable nutrition. When one looks at the big picture
of how what we eat affects our energy level, our mood, our behavior, and
consequently our evolution, and our environment, as with GMOs, irradiation is
obviously another terrible retrogression and in my opinion an illogical use of
scientific technology. Again science is overstepping its boundaries.
*** From the moment fresh food is "harvested", it begins to lose nutritive value at a
logarithmic rate. While ionizing radiation may kill microorganisms that digest the
food, producing substances that are undesirable to humans, even toxic, I believe
that it also accelerates the nutritive degradation. Even if it did NOT do so, it still yet facilitates the ability of old, nutritively-poor food to be sold to unwitting consumers, unable to be alerted to the age of the food by the telltale signs of bacterial decomposition.
Food should not simply be sold in order to give consumers the ability to have a
feeling of having eaten something--it should be for giving them the ability to be
healthy! Extending the shelf-life of food does is COUNTER to that goal.
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Please do not irradiate my vegetables, it destroys all of its nutrients. I will take my chances on vegetables I purchase.
***Please do not irradiate vegetables. I am concerned that doing this will basically result in a food item with ZERO nutritional value.
***I do not irradiated foods myself, nor do I want to serve them to my family. I feel they are unsafe for the body!
Use of Ionizing Radiation for the Control of Food-Borne Pathogens and Infectious
Protozoa, and Extension of Shelf-Life, in a Variety of Human Foods is dangerous
to human health Irradiating food makes food more dangerous, not safer. Some major concerns with food irradiation include:
-The formation of free radicals, which can set off chain reactions in the body that destroy antioxidants, tear apart cell membranes, and make the body more
susceptible to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, liver damage, muscular breakdown
and other serious problems.
-Serious health problems in laboratory testing, including, including premature
death, fatal internal bleeding, cancer, stillbirths and other reproductive problems, mutations and other genetic damage, organ malfunctions, stunted growth and vitamin deficiencies.
-The creating mutant forms of dangerous bacteria, like E. coli and Salmonella
-Nutrient loss in foods, including the destruction of vitamins and essential fatty
acids.
-The formation of carcinogenic chemicals, like benzene and toluene.
-While irradiated lettuce and spinach must be labeled in supermarkets, there are
currently no labeling requirements for restaurants serving irradiated produce or
other items. Patrons and clients may consume irradiated lettuce and spinach in
the future without their knowledge, nor consent.
***To FDA-1999-F-2405
Irradiated makes food dangerous not safer. Please leave the food alone, we need
the nutrients for good health. You will destroy any vitamins in the food which
we need. Cecile
Dear Sirs. Myself and the majority of my patients are extremely health conscious and do NOT want to be eating adulterated foods, ie, GMO and irradiated foods! The safety of these things is very much in question and we do not want to put our health and especially our childrens' health at risk with unproven long term affects. If these foods are to be forced on us in these states, then at the very least labeling should be REQUIRED stating GMO or irradiated foods so that we have a choice to eat them or not! After all this is still America where we should have a choice and not something forced on us !
***PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT IRRADIATION OF FOOD. IT IS HARMFUL. IF YOU
CHOOSE TO SUPPORT IT, THEN PLEASE INSIST THAT IRRADIATED FOODS
ARE LABELED AS SUCH. THANK YOU, ANNE KATIR
***Don't want irradiated food. We have no idea what the long term effects of this will be. Maybe we should figure out Autism before we throw some more variables into our diet.
***Please reconsider the irradiation of our foods. As a consumer it truly concerns me
that our government has approved such an action. Irradiation causes the creation
of toxic free radicals, vitamin and nutrient loss, and the formation of carcinogenic chemicals. I believe today's health issues come from the diet and food we're eating, including those "healthy" fruits, veggies and grains because of how they're treated agriculturally with pesticides, genetic modification and antibiotics. We don't have to be a quick fix nation. Find other solutions and fix the source, don't treat the symptoms - use smaller family run farms instead of these massive power- houses where disease easily fests. Change they way we work and it may solve lots of problems for us.
***I am opposed to consume food that was exposed to ionized radiation. I REQUEST THE FOOD TREATED WITH IONIZED RADIATION TO BE PROPERLY LABELED. I am a biochemist, and I know the detrimental effect of ionized radiation on living cells. Treating food that way IS NOT SAFE!
***We shouldn't have to worry about GMO and irradiation on top of pesticides. But thanks to an industry driven government, that's exactly what's happening. PLEASE STOP IRRADIATION, or AT THE VERY LEAST, MANDATE THAT
FOOD BE LABELED AS SUCH!
***Please rethink your decision to allow radiation of food.
That's like throwing out the baby and drinking the bath water!
I am a recent convert to organic foods, and not in just a small part to
decisions like FDA just made regarding this. One thing I hope for is enough
more converts to organize and get a ground swell big enough to replace FDA with
a worthy and viable group of individuals with a grain of common sense.lj
***
Do Not Pass the Irradiating of our spinach and lettuce. The formation of free
radicals, which can set off chain reactions in the body that destroy antioxidants,
tear apart cell membranes, and make the body more susceptible to cancer,
diabetes, heart disease, liver damage, muscular breakdown and other serious
problems.
Serious health problems in laboratory testing, including, including premature
death, fatal internal bleeding, cancer, stillbirths and other reproductive problems, mutations and other genetic damage, organ malfunctions, stunted growth and vitamin deficiencies.
The creating mutant forms of dangerous bacteria, like E. coli and Salmonella
-Nutrient loss in foods, including the destruction of vitamins and essential fatty
acids.
-The formation of carcinogenic chemicals, like benzene and toluene.
-While irradiated lettuce and spinach must be labeled in supermarkets, there are
currently no labeling requirements for restaurants serving irradiated produce or
other items. Patrons and clients may consume irradiated lettuce and spinach in
the future without their knowledge, nor consent.
Thank you,
Joanne Carr
***Please stop the radiation of all food products. Make industry accountable and have them clean up their act.
Irradiating food makes food more dangerous, not safer. Some major concerns with
food irradiation include:
-The formation of free radicals, which can set off chain reactions in the body
that destroy antioxidants, tear apart cell membranes, and make the body more
susceptible to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, liver damage, muscular breakdown
and other serious problems.
-Serious health problems in laboratory testing, including, including premature
death, fatal internal bleeding, cancer, stillbirths and other reproductive
problems, mutations and other genetic damage, organ malfunctions, stunted growth
and vitamin deficiencies.
-The creating mutant forms of dangerous bacteria, like E. coli and Salmonella
-Nutrient loss in foods, including the destruction of vitamins and essential
fatty acids.
As a citizen concerned with improving my health through natural means, I look to
wholesome foods to give me the nutrients I needs through food. Stop this
process now, so that all Americans can get all the nutrients from food and not
the harmful effects that radiation will inflict.
Sincerely,
Nikki Michalski, B.S.,
***Irradiation of foods reduces the nutrition in the foods that our citizens need to reverse the health crisis we are experiencing in the USA. Please stop irradiation. The proper way to eliminate contamination of
our vegetables is to heavily control the run off and pollution from livestock
operations. The e. coli contaminations come from animal excrement from the factory livestock operations.
Irradiation kills the nutrients we need to get from the food. Irradiation is a
nonsense approach to fix a problem caused by bad animal husbandry practices. Stop the contamination at the source, the meat production operations, not the downstream effects.
*** The insanity of creating a "solution" that damages our food supply and ultimately the people who unknowingly eat generated free radicals and damaged molecules could only be created by persons with vested interests, who do not care one whit about the people that they serve. I strongly oppose this bill! Jerry Alexander, D.D.S.
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