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Saturday, April 19, 2003

WEEKLY FARM: As irradiated meat heads to schools, parents remain fearful of the technology
Schools soon may add a helping of controversy: irradiated meat.

Congress last year directed the Agriculture Department to accept irradiation as a method of sanitizing meat for the national school lunch program.

The idea seemed reasonable to lawmakers. The department itself deemed the technology safe in 1999 after concluding that its benefits -- preventing food poisoning -- outweighed the risk of any potential side effects.
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