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FDA Turns Over New Leaf on Irradiation

It's only for spinach and iceberg lettuce — sorry, romaine — but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will allow the use of irradiation on those leafy foods in an attempt to kill potentially deadly pathogens like E. coli and salmonella.

Irradiation Gets Shot In the Arm

The first issue of Miller-McCune magazine looked at the industry and government response to the E. Coli outbreak of 2006, in which tainted spinach sickened more than 200 people and killed three.