Lettuce, spinach can be zapped with radiation to kill germs: U.S. ruling

Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 19:14 in Biology & Nature

American food producers will soon be allowed to expose fresh spinach and iceberg lettuce with low levels of radiation in order to kill E. coli and other potentially dangerous germs.

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