The American Meat Institute is pressing USDA for a meeting on its long-standing request that the agency approve electron beam irradiation application to beef carcasses. In a letter to USDA's deputy under secretary for food safety Jerold Mande, AMI Executive Vice President James Hodges is asking for a sit down and talk. It was four years ago when AMI first petitioned USDA to allow the technology use as a food safety intervention.
Hodges wrote, "Given the substantial food safety benefits this technology offers it seems that the technical issues can be appropriately addressed during the notice and comment rulemaking process. That process would be required to allow use of this technology in the manner requested."
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