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Article #4374Re: effect of X rays on food
From: Heather Corbett
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1990 03:49
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1990 03:49
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Your food is fine; think how many crates of oranges go through checkers every year! X rays are damaging to living systems because they can with certain dosages cause point mutations in replicating DNA; that is, when the cell divides and DNA copies itself, it pairs up with the wrong component. However, since someone is going to eat this food, not breed it, s/he should be quite alright. Now, if we used microwave checkers, it might be a touch *warm*...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!bu.edu!bu-cs!mirror!frog!wendy!bambam!mikey From: mikey@bambam.WELLESLEY.EDU (Heather Corbett) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: effect of X rays on food Summary: don't worry Keywords: x rays Message-ID: <12732@bambam.WELLESLEY.EDU> Date: 2 Feb 90 03:49:00 GMT References: <26756@brunix.UUCP> Reply-To: mikey@bambam.UUCP (Heather Corbett) Followup-To: sci.bio Organization: Wellesley College Lines: 8