-Caveat Lector- > > > Chemical Formed in Irradiated Food Damages DNA, Recent Study Reveals > http://www.citizen.org/cmep/rad-food/InformationNewChemicalF ormed.htm > > > 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. 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