The Food That Would Last Forever: Understanding the Dangers of Food Irradiation

By Gary Gibbs

Looks at the history of food irradiation, argues that it depletes the nutrional value of food and may pose a health risk, and discusses the politics behind the development of the process.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895295474
• ISBN13: 9780895295477
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Avery
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

"This Book is Wrong," says ignorance.

Dr. Gibbs has done an excellent job of enlightening us as to the recklessness of the FDA in approving the irradiation of food. Illustrating this is a quote from the book:"Curiously, despite the fact that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given food irradiation the green light, its own Recommendations for Evaluating the Safety of Foods (Final Report) stated that 'chronic feeding studies which have substituted up to thirty five percent of the normal [lab animal] diet with specific irradiated foods ... had to be terminated because of premature mortality and morbidity.' To put it plainly, the animals in these studies got sick and died."It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that eating irradiated food is detrimental to ones health. I have great difficulty trusting a government agency (FDA) that acquiesces so readily to industry, in spite of overwhelming evidence. The consumer is left in the dark, not knowing the extent of irradiation, and abandoned by the FDA to read industry supported documents. Another quote from the book:"The people within the irradiation industry are very tightlipped about their activities, and the FDA does not require them to disclose such information for the public record. Indeed, many aspects of the FDA's food irradiation policy make it virtually impossible for the consumer to find out just how much of the food supply is being irradiated, or to know where these irradiated foods are being used."I found this book to be most helpful. I highly recommend it to anyone, whether novice or pro.

The information in the book needs to be updated with referen

If the date shown, 1993, is the correct date then the books is around six year old. It needs to be updated with current reference to current scientific evidence with regards to "electron beam" pastuerization. Dr. do you have a more recent book on the subject or perhaps a research article ?

Food Irradiation: Just How Bad Is It? Ans: REAL Bad!

I stumbled onto this book while looking for info on the possible adverse effects of eating irradiated food. This book has more documented info on those dangers than I found in toto during several days of searching the web. And the info is indeed scary. Makes me wonder if a scrubbing operation has been conducted on this info. Lots of references in the footnotes.