And don't forget the 'radura'. The radura is to the food industry as the 'biohazard' is to medical industry.
Jeepers.
Yet the comments on proposing the radura by various UTC members were negative. And it isn't a logo.
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/foodsafety/rad/radura.html
http://www.organicconsumers.org/Irrad/EPA-radura.cfm
http://www.sare.org/htdocs/hypermail/html-home/40-html/0462.html
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/larc/Irradiation_Q_&A.htm
Documents say "mandated by the FDA" -- is it actually international? I don't believe I have ever seen it. Can you, heh heh, buy something with it on it and scan us a sample of it in use?
Does the FDA or anyone distribute a font with this symbol in it?
Radura is Italian for a 'glade' or 'clearing' for what that is worth.
Depending on answers to the above, I would certainly consider popping the RADURA into a bucket with the DO NOT LITTER SIGN. (It still irritates me that Ken vetoed that one. I see it *everywhere* on packaging from more and more countries.)
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