irradiated+beef

Instructions: Read this article and answer the below questions: (If you use a separate sheet of paper just number the answers)

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1. What bacteria does irradiating beef protect us from?

2. What did the Senate Farm Bill say about labeling irradiated beef?

3. In what year did it become legal to irradiate grains, fruits, and vegetables? . 4. Are school lunches irradiated?

5. What are the advantages of irradiating food?

6. What are the disadvantages of irradiating food?

7. - 10. Fill in the blanks of the below statement:

Irradiated meat is a very different product than _ meat. This is hardly surprising as the Food and Drug Administration's

approved irradiation dosage of 450,000 rads is approximately _ _ greater than that of a chest x-ray.

Apart from high levels of benzene, new chemicals known as 'unique radiolytic products' were identified in _ __in

U.S. Army tests in 1977, and recognized as carcinogenic. Later tests identified other chemicals shown to induce genetic toxicity."