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***As an organization that promotes health and education for children with special needs, we wish to state that the negative evidence about radiated food counteracts any limited anti bacterial effect it might have, producing more health problems in children that already have compromised immune systems. Please do not carry this out.
***I am a consumer who would like to keep my safe but think irradiation should be a last resort. I would like my food to be labeled to let me know if this step has been taken.
*** Horrible idea. Food will lose all of it's nutrients as well. Don't do it.
***Our food sources are compromised enough already. Please do not IRRADIATE fresh food - work instead toward cleaner more sanitary practices in the factories and processing plants.
***Please take action to clean up industrial feedlots rather than allowing irradiated foods (spinach and lettuce now to be allowed?!). Food irradiation bombards food with high levels of x-rays in order to destroy disease causing pathogens. Unfortunately, in the process of irradiation, other hazards arise, like the creation of toxic free radicals, vitamin and nutrient loss, and the formation of carcinogenic chemicals. Rather than trying unsuccessfully to make food safer, go to the source and clean up the problems inherent in a disease-ridden factory-farmed food system. This will be safer for all members of the planet!
***Do you truly mean to tell us that irradiated lettuce and spinach are good for our health??? How about more support for local and organic farmers? You know, the folks who REALLY have our best interest at heart... I wonder who is the low-neuron brainiac who came up with this idea...I only hope they don't get a cold...if they do I'd recommend immediate radiation for them and their families...you know, just in case. Sounds like a pretty moronic stance, right? Thought so.
***Labeling irradiated vegetables, meats, produce and grocery items should be mandated across the board. Consumers must be made aware of the potential dangers of consuming products that have been genetically modified, drenched in pesticides and treated with radiation.
***Stop messing with our food supply. This is going to create more health hazards. this is another reason to go organic! Or grow little gardens in backyards. Support local growers!
*** please no food irradiation
*** Do we not have enough nutrient loss already in our fruits and veggies thru the years of insecticides, pesticides, acid rain, water pollutants, etc... DO NOT IRRADIATE OUR FOODS !!!
***Irradiated food is unhealthy and potentially toxic. Please stop this practice for the sake of all the children in our country!
***I am appalled and hope that your decision to irradiate lettuce and spinach is quickly reversed. No food should be irradiated!!!!!!!!! Please know that this mom and household purchaser will not buy any irradiated food. There is absolutely no protection when one goes out to eat or lands in the hospital...there is no way to know if your food is irradiated or not in these situations. Please address the real issue and clean up and make stricter regulations for corporate feed lots which are often the source of contamination. Please do not irradiate lettuce and spinach (any food for that matter)!!!!!!!!
***To whom it may concern; I am informing you of my concern that the FDA has okayed the irradiation of lettuce and spinach and possibly other foods. As an grocery consumer, I am outraged that the FDA would do something like this, irradiation can and will poison our food supply and cause people to become sicker from illness and disease, not only that it causes a depletion of essential vitamins and nutrients that are found naturally in foods. I am a firm believer in natural foods and products(more specifically organic whenever possible) and when something like this occurs, it makes me wonder and think that the FDA doesn't take peoples health and safety in consideration, it shows me that they just don't care about what they put in foods. I am hoping that hopefully and maybe you can do something to put an end to the process of irradiating our food supply, since you are in the agriculture business, just maybe you can work something out to make our food supply fresh, pure, wholesome, natural, and safe from toxic poisons. Thank You from a very concerned US citizen., Michelle r. Taylor
***I am not in favor of allowing irradiation of vegetables . Irradiation makes food less safe -- not safer by introducing free radicals, destroying vitamins, and possibly causing dangerous mutant bacteria. It is better to maintain high standards of cleanliness at food production facilities than to jeopardize the consumer's health.
***we don't want our veggies to be irradiated. clean up feedlots instead!
***As a Pharmacist, I am duly concerned about the formation of toxic free radicals. It would be easier and better to clean up the factory farms where this produce is picked and marketed. I see hundreds of people daily and am handing out slips to tell them to not purchase ANY iceberg lettuce or spinach as it will be quite deadly to them. The FDA has not done its homework once again, and is serving to protect industry instead of the consumer.
***Are you insane? Treating food with radiation instead of making companies clean up their act. You have no idea the long term risk of feed humans food that has been doused with radiation. I am angry at you, the government that is clueless, the government that says and does whatever it wants to. There is no democracy, there is no voice of the common people you listen too. You only listen to the people with money, big business. I am disgusted. I want raw milk for my children, fresh free-range chicken and eggs, antibiotic freeand hormone free meat, no GMO produce, pesticide free food, and I want NO RADIATION on my salad, fruit, nuts, and other foods. Keep your mitts off my natural God given foods. I am willing to take the chance. You take yours, go sky diving. Leave my food alone. It's my body and my future grandchildren's bodies you are screwing with. What sense does it make? What are you thinking? I am going to take a gander and think you are NOT THINKING. Rev. Tracie Drake

***To Whom It May Concern, I wish I had the time to write a lengthy scientific comment. I am very upset about these new rules. It is shocking that most people have no idea that their food is already irradiated. As cancer is on the rise, why would we our families, communities, children and nation food that has been put under radiation? Exposure to radiation has detrimental affects. I urge you who will decide on this rule to say no and instead come up with a rule that will ban the process of irradiation completely. I will not be an experiment and I will do my best to educated everyone around me to ban such food and only buy local organic produce. ENOUGH playing with our food. Thank you kindly for making the right choice to protect public health and ban irradiation altogether. For the sake of this specific rule, please say no to irradiation of spinach. Many Thanks, Stephanie Trager, Esq. Holistic Health Coach and Consulting Attorney
***I totally object to irradiating any foods. It is dangerous to human health. There are many alternatives to irradiating that are much less toxic. PLEASE do not approve irradiating spinach and lettuce. Thank you.
***Do not weaken the organic standard ... give us a choice in how and what we eat. And make sure that choice extends to restaurants and institutions.
***Please, please, please do not allow our food to be irradiated. It kills the life force that makes food a sustaining thing for our bodies.
***FDA to clean-up industrial feedlots instead of irradiating our food
***We want our food to be grown naturally!
***I can't believe, you all are doing this. Is it your intent to DESTROY all foods??? It looks that way. This is inexcusable! My health freedoms are being violated! SHAME on you ALL! For thinking you know BEST! Who advised you??? The drug industry? ... The food industry? Did anyone bother to do some research? Thank God for the internet, information is there for us all! It's time you all realized, we're on to your intents and agendas!!!! Totally sickened by your irresponsible decisions! I'm looking for people to support that actually care otherwise they won't get my vote or that of some many others! Do the RIGHT thing and reverse your decision! We have rights and our freedoms should not be stolen! Alicia Pina
***Exposing the food supply to irradiation is not the answer to the problem of food borne illnesses. This irradiation scheme is going to have hard to detect ramifications that will undoubtedly create more health problems in the future. Science is giving us more and more information every day about how harmful many of our technologies are. Please require that all irradiated "foods" be sufficiently labeled at the point of sale to consumers. Jason Perry, PharmD
***Do not start irradiating produce for human consumption. I find it to be unsafe and certainly the long term effects and damage are not currently measurable. This seems like a way to grow inferior produce and pretend it is now safe for human consumption. We need to get to the root of the problem of why has the food become so contaminated. We need to look to the manure that is used on the fields and where it comes from. If it comes from factory farming it is definitely contaminated with all sorts of horrible bacteria and then we are spreading it all over our food supply. I don't believe that using radiation on our produce is the way to prevent people becoming sick.
***Do not irradiate our food. Clean up the industry. Why destroy our vitamins?
***our meat industry is inhumane and animals live in crowded conditions. radiating rather than addressing the root causes of contamination is irresponsible and dangerous
***Food irradiation may destroy disease causing pathogens, but it also helps destroy nutritional content of our food. Please let US be responsible for us. Put warnings up if you need to but for God's sake, leave our food alone!Jim
***Please label irradiated foods.
***Please leave this alone, we MUST be exposed to bacteria and viruses in order to build an immunity. You are going to do more harm than good.
***I oppose the use of irradiation on produce because it creates the potential for toxic free radicals, vitamin and nutrient loss, and the formation of carcinogenic chemicals. As a consumer, I'd prefer you clean up industrial feedlots instead of irradiation our food.Thank you, Jenny Gottstein
***Please DO NOT go forward with allowing spinach/lettuce to be irradiated. The issue lies within the faulty practices of factory farms. What about legislation for schools, restaurants, hospitals etc? This action is short-sighted and will cost more money in the long-term in health care. All that is being accomplished is leaching minerals and vitamins from already deficient foods. Stop thinking with your bank accounts!!!!!!!!!!!
***I urge the government to reject the plan to irradiate food. Use the power of government instead to clean up the farm practices that cause harmful pathogens to enter the food chain. Irradiation is itself a harmful practice.
***Let's see...you are spraying our skies and allowed to change our weather, creating flood, droughts and stalling hurricanes, you are putting cancer viruses in our vaccines along with dangerous additives like mercury, MSG, Aspartame, Aluminium and sterilization agents, you are allowing for dangerous chemicals to be used in our foods and home, pesticides on our food, preservatives and coloring agents in our food all known to increase disease, cancer, birth defects and autoimmune diseases and now you want to nuke our food to destroy any nutritional value left in it. I see. We must need to be culled? Killed off? I watched Alex Jones documentary "End Game" on youtube pointing out your agenda is to cut the population to 1/2 billion in the world by 2020. I then read the "Agenda 21" program that the UN is adopting as per the Club of Rome, Trilateral Commission and CFR for a One World Order (which Bush Sr. to Obama and McCain have said our world needs) and as it all seems to point very clearly to your desire to cull the herd in the world to half a billion. I guess I just want to ask is how can you with any morality left in your soul live with yourself knowing you are doing this to us?
***Rather than dealing with the problems inherent in a disease-ridden factory-farmed food system, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in mid-September it will allow the irradiation of lettuce and spinach. Food irradiation is the controversial practice of bombarding food with high levels of x-rays (ionizing radiation) in order to destroy disease causing pathogens. Unfortunately, in the process of irradiation, other hazards arise, like the creation of toxic free radicals, vitamin and nutrient loss, and the formation of carcinogenic chemicals. While irradiated lettuce and spinach must be labeled in supermarkets, there are currently no labeling requirements whatsoever for restaurants, schools, hospitals, or nursing homes serving irradiated produce or other nuked foods such as beef. Over the past decade, OCA and our allies in the organic community have prevented corporate agribusiness and the nuclear industry from contaminating organic standards. Food irradiation is prohibited on any product labeled as "organic." DEAL WITH THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM!!!!
***I am concerned about the plan to Irradiate lettuce and spinach. As a lactation consultant I would like that none of our food be irradiated. We need to clean up our agricultural processes to prevent our vegetables and fruits being contaminated. Pleasee do not allow our food to be irradiated.
***Irradiating our produce is not the answer. Please clean up our industrialized animal feed lot system. That is where the real problems lie, that is were disease can easily begin and spread. No matter what lobbyist claim, radiation does kill food nutrients, don't believe the hype.
***This is an unhealthy alternative. My family doesn't buy or eat any produce that isn't organic. Please consider those who cannot afford to buy organic foods and maybe who aren't informed about dangers of pesticides and irradiation. This practice could produce a generation of children who grow up with birth defects or other health problems. Think about humans who really would eat this food. Would you eat it knowing what you know?
***Important enzymes that are in raw foods are killed in the nuking process! Our health is at greater stake by using this process than by individual washing of all produce which should be practiced by all private consumers. Don't let these harmful procedures be used, taking away our rights to purchase wholesome raw foods that many do not have the means or the time to produce themselves.
***Please, clean up the industrial feel lots before turning to such radical measures as irradiating our food supply. Although is is proposed to label irradiated food in the grocery stores, it is not required for public food delivery systems such as restaurants, schools or hospitals. This places the consumer at risk. We need to look at long term solutions such as sustainable agriculture before we travel down the path to irradiation or other such measures.
*** I am an individual who had grown their own fruits and vegetable for years organically and never had problems with bacteria or pathogens that made me sick or anyone who has eaten them. There is no reason that food be irradiated to protect the citizens. It not only changes the nutritional value but there has been no research done that understands the long-term effects/hazards to our citizens health. Sounds like expediency and greed rather than good long term problem solving on how to grow & distribute healthy & nutritious food.
*** Is it possible to have toxic free food please? How I do appreciate your oversight when it comes to dangers and hazardous chemicals entering the American diet, I would ask that when you attempt to "fix" a broken problem in the food industry that you use natural and healthy alternative methods. Methods as such that would have been used by our ancestors. Such as natural fertilizers, natural feed given to livestock, non toxic pesticides/herbicides, non GMO seeds in any capacity, natural and healthy sewage and irrigation methods. I do understand that this bureaucracy is not directly responsible for all of the above mentioned points concerning individual companies and farmers. But you are responsible for the rules, regulations, laws, approval, oversight, that each participant in the food industry is responsible for following and YOU can make the changes necessary to bring our food system back to a decent and healthy standard without compromising the integrity of the natural state of the food.
***Please fulfill your responsibility to the public by banning irradiation on spinach and lettuce and clean up the farms nearby that are producing the bacteria from animal and other waste. Irradiation causes changes in the food that can cause cancer. We already have a cancer epidemic as it is--please don't contribute even more to this by irresponsibly allowing irradiation of produce. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that exposing what we eat to radiation is going to cause changes in the food that will harm people. It's obvious. Thank you
***The use of ionizing radiation for the control of food-borne pathogens and infectious protozoa, and extension of shelf-life, in any human foods is not a solution for the problems inherent in a disease-ridden factory-farmed food system. In the process of irradiation, other hazards arise, like the creation of toxic free radicals, vitamin and nutrient loss, and the formation of carcinogenic chemicals. This solves no problems, yet creates more. Stop catering to large corporate interests (i.e. factory farms) and start protecting the people by allowing sustainable farming methods to make headway in this country.
*** I am opposed to the Irradiation of any food source. I will not purchase any products that I suspect are or may be irradiated. That includes restaurants and Grocery Stores. I reserve my right to make my own choices and not be bullied into something by the FDA.
*** I am voicing my opinion on irradiated spinach and lettuce in the strongest voice possible. As a nutritionist, I am deeply concerning about how irradiation of these two very important high-nutrient foods will affect the health of our nation. Not only will irradiation create a host of free radicals that will contribute to aging and disease, it will destroy precious vitamins, enzymes, and phytonutrients. Irradiation of our food is not the answer to controlling disease causing pathogens. Cleaning up the disease-ridden factory farms and creating higher standards for cleanliness and care of factory farm animals is the answer.
***As a nutritionist I am outraged that irradiation of food would even be considered. But it is great for controlling fruit flies! It is so destructive to the nutritive value of food that fruit flies stay away from irradiated fruit. Try it! I left some tasteless apples in a bowl on my refrigerator all summer long to ripen. They never did, and while the fruit flies had a ball with my delicious home grown grapes if I didn't eat them up fast enough, they never touched the apples, which finally started to shrivel without a single spot of rot. Were these irradiated? I'd bet on that! After leaving them there for 6 months just for the fun of it, to see what would develop, I threw them out. Everyone I know is going organic! What do you legislators eat?
*** If you water plants with microwaved water only, they will die. What can we learn from this? The simple fact that food should not be irradiated. True, we are not plants but, we are alive and life is life. I believe that, as Americans, we are some of the least healthy people on this planet because we have very unhealthy eating habits such as microwaving much of our food. Irradiating foods before they even come home with us is only adding insult to injury. Please let us wash our produce in our water and don't do this awful practice to it first!
NONONO! No irradiation of our foods! Why step backwards? To create healthy foods, don't solve one problem by introducing other problems! Instead of irradiating foods, by supporting Organic, Sustainable, and Local farms, we create a much healthier food industry that produces food that is not only disease free, but tastier, and higher in nutritional value. Thank you.
*** It's time to stop putting bandages on the problems, and in this case the bandage is dangerous and nutrition depleting, not to mention the reason for this kind of solution is because the factory farming practices are causing it. You won't find these problems on organic farms - the food is superior and the nutrition is as high as possible these days.
Thanks to all the chemicals used today the problems keep getting larger, health is sacrificed for large quantities of chemically laden food (poison) if you can call what is grown today food.. just take a pill for any problem you have. Mother nature provides EVERYTHING needed for a healthy life, but when there's money to be made man has a way of stepping in attempting to "Improve" his bank account while destroying the very nature of what nature provided bringing on all kinds of health problems but passing blame instead of taking responsibility for the problems he created.. STOP destroying our food, please do your job in protecting the people, not the industry that causes the problem!!!!!!
***I urge you to vote down legislation that would allow irradiation of foods. This is unsafe. Please support investigation of other means of insuring pathogen free food. Thank you. Corey McLaughlin
*** Please do not allow radiation of foods to cover up the terribly poor cleaning abilities of corporations. They should do the right thing (clean up their act) and so should you (protect our health). The radiation of food affects it's life giving nutrients. Please do not follow this path of error. Thank you for listening. L. Comerate, RN
*** Please stop allowing radiated foods into the marketplace.
*** To Whom it May Concern; I strongly object to any "short cuts", such as irradiation, in the processing of our vegetables. Please work on cleaning up the problems on the farms and processing plants and giving everyone a more healthful product to begin with. Thank You, Leslie Hunter Uhl
***As a long-time vegetarian and parent of a person with infection and immune system issues (transplant, dialysis, dozens of surgical interventions) most of his life, I am glad that irradiation and other ultrapasteurization techniques are available. While you will get a lot of "anti" comments, they will be, if my experience is typical, mostly based on fear and pseudoscience. It is the luxury of folks who have grown up with a generally very safe food supply - not to mention vaccines, safe municipal water, decent sewers and other public health measures which are behind the scenes and therefore underestimated and unappreciated - to consider themselves knowledgeable as they parrot nonsense promoted with the enticing notion of "health care freedom". Such has already brought us the disastrous DSHEA law (1994) and is directly responsible for measles and mumps and pertussis outbreaks because so many folks are failing to vaccinate their children. The damage from the anti-vaccination movement is just beginning. Unlike the UK, which has an NHS to play catch-up when the bogus MMR scare caused herd immunity to dip precipitously, we in the US have a large medically-underserved population of children as well as very permissible exemptions in most states to allow parents to opt out of critical public health measures such as vaccination. So, yes, allow irradiated lettuce and spinach, label it. I will still use local and organic as much as possible (and I live next door to an organic farm), but I am glad clean food will be available to more folks, and radiation is one part of the picture.
***Please register our firm opposition to the irradiation of food. Irradiation prompts 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. In addition, irradiation is linked to the formation of carcinogenic chemicals, such as benzene and toluene; the creation of mutant forms of dangerous bacteria, like E. coli and Salmonella; and nutrient loss in foods, including the destruction of vitamins and essential fatty acids. There are numerous alternatives to irradiation. We kindly urge you to visit http://www.organicconsumers.org/irrad/alternatives.cfm and reject all proposals to irradiate food. Thank you.
***Please do not approve irradiation of spinach and lettuce. We are not interested in acquiring more carcinogenic foods, and I'm sure the FDA does not want to risk mass action lawsuits by approving this dangerous food sterilization method. How about addressing the problems of the factory-farmed system to make it cleaner and healthier to begin with? Sonja Mason
***Irradiation is NOT the answer to controlling disease contaminated food. Farms and factories need to practice sanitary processing and the consumer should clean items before consuming. Simple. Irradiation will only cause MORE disease by killing vital nutrients in the food that our bodies need to stay healthy. Please don't allow this deadly practice to occur.
***Consumer Comments on Food Irradiation

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