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NY Beef Industry Promotes Irradiation
BINGHAMTON, N.Y.
What happens when 1,500
women gather to watch cooking
demonstrations, learn new reci
pes, and discover innovative
cooking techniques?
A “Taste of Home” show, of
course, and along with it a great
opportunity for the New York
Beef Industry Council (NYBIC)
to spread the great news about ir
radiation and its important role
in food safety.
The NYBIC sponsored the
event and served over 700 sam
ples of chili using irradiated
ground beef, demonstrating that
the delicious taste of beef is unal
tered by the irradiation process.
The show gave NYBIC staff
an opportunity to educate con
sumers in the Southern Tier
about the benefits of irradiated
ground beef.
“Our goal is to make beef the
safest food on the dinner table
and irradiation is helping us do
that. Improved food safety clear
ly benefits New York’s beef and
dairy producers, as well as con
sumers nationwide,” said Carol
GUlis, executive director of the
NYBIC.
“By increasing consumer
knowledge and confidence in
beef, we expand demand. Irradi
ated beef will do for the beef in
dustry what pasteurized milk did
for the dairy industry a half cen
tury ago: improve quality and
help stop the spread of fopd
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Lorraine Lowery, vice president of the New York Cat
tle Women, talks with a Taste of Home attendee about the
benefits of irradiated ground beef. The New York Beef in
dustry Council was on hand to talk about the importance
of beef in a balanced diet.
radiated fresh ground beef under
their own label.
Shortly thereafter, other major
upstate retail chains including
Price Chopper and Tops Friendly
Markets added the irradiated
product to them ground beef se
lections in the meat case.
The idea of irradiated foods is
not new. Scientists have known
for decades that exposing food to
x-rays, high energy electrons, or
cobalt-60 could kill deadly bacte
ria. Irradiation complements,—
not replaces -r- other food safety
procedures at all points in
food system from form to con
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their college education. Appli
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had to be members or the chil
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Winners are listed by region:
DelMarVa Region: Dusti Van
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high school senior, plans to study
plant or animal science in college;
Abigail Eaton of Queen Anne,
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and Hanna Nagel of Federal
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Elizabethtown Grange
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