Food
irradiation - useful links
The
Organic Consumers Association (USA) has an excellent website
campaigning on a wide range of global food issues, including
irradiation:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/irradlink.html
An online
EU news source:
http://www.euractiv.com/cgi-bin/cgint.exe/912919-777?1&temp=focecnh&SIDN=2386978&-tt=hf&-STID=7
Europa,
the official European Union website, contains the main official
documents relating to food irradiation in the EU:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sfp/fi_index_en.html
To view
news / papers on food irradiation, go to the website of the
Association of European Consumers (AEC):
http://www.consumer-aec.org/english/activities/irradiation/irradiation_index.htm
http://www.consumer-aec.org/english/documents.htm
The United
States consumer advocacy group, Public Citizen, also campaigns
on irradiation issues:
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/foodsafety/food_irrad/
This
link is to the irradiation page of the Australian Stop Food
Irradiation Alliance:
http://www.nukefreefood.freeservers.com/index.htm
News
stories:
Guardian
Unlimited - 1 September 2001: http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,544377,00.html
Food
Standards Agency press release, 7 June 2002: http://www.food.gov.uk/news/pressreleases/irradiated_food_pr
BBC
News, 6 June 2002
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2029596.stm
