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Chemical Formed In Irradiated
Food Damages DNA
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3-11-1
In a rare opportunity to speak publicly about food
irradiation before a captive audience of government
officials and food industry executives, Public Citizen
this week released the world's first English
translation of a recent German study revealing that
a chemical formed in irradiated food can damage
DNA.
The study confirmed what safe-food advocates and
many pioneering researchers have known for more
than 30 years: Exposing food to ionizing radiation
can lead to the formation of bizarre new chemicals
called "unique radiolytic products" that can cause
serious health problems. One such chemical, known
as 2-DCB, caused "significant DNA damage" in the
colons of rats that ate the substance. The chemical
- - which, ironically, is a well-known "marker" for
determining whether food has been irradiated - -
has never been found naturally in any food on
Earth.
The study was conducted in 1998 under the
auspices of two prominent pro-irradiation
organizations. It was performed at one of the most
prestigious food irradiation labs in the world, the
Federal Research Center for Nutrition in Karlsruhe,
Germany. And it was co-funded by the International
Consultative Group on Food Irradiation, a United
Nations-sponsored organization that promotes food
irradiation worldwide.
Public Citizen released an English translation of the
study at a Feb. 13 meeting at the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration in Washington, D.C. The
meeting was held to preview an upcoming meeting
of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which sets
food safety standards for most nations of the world.
Codex officials, meeting March 12-16 in The Hague,
will consider a proposal to completely remove the
maximum dose of radiation to which food can be
exposed. The current maximum dose is 10 kiloGray
- - the equivalent of 330 million chest x-rays and
enough radiation to kill a person 2,000 times over.
At this week's FDA meeting, Public Citizen told
government officials and food industry executives
that health authorities have used a variety of
excuses to dismiss dozens of studies conducted
since the 1950s that suggest irradiated food may
not be safe for human consumption. In these
studies, lab animals have suffered premature death,
a rare form of cancer, fatal internal bleeding,
stillbirths and other reproductive problems,
chromosomal aberrations, liver damage, nutritional
deficiencies and low weight gain. The excuses most
commonly given are that the studies are old,
inconclusive or poorly designed.
None of these excuses apply to the German study,
however, which was conducted three years ago,
yielded conclusive results, and was performed
under the guidance of cutting-edge scientific
protocols. Despite the study's clear findings and
high quality, it was distorted and dismissed by the
World Health Organization, which has endorsed the
irradiation of any food at any dose - - no matter how
high. And, because it had never been translated into
English, FDA officials never reviewed it.
Now, FDA and WHO officials have no excuse. Now
they know that irradiated food holds the true
potential to harm people who eat it. Now they know
that if they continue to approve the food industry's
requests to irradiate food - - such as the pending
request to irradiate ready-to-eat foods such as deli
meat and pre-cut salads - - they will be defying the
truth. Now they should know better. The question is:
Will they?
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